Forbes November 5, 2024
Over 40+ years of researching the tech world, I have witnessed Silicon Valley as the epicenter of many world-changing technologies.
The first major technology that put Silicon Valley on the map was the invention of the transistor. Although it was created at Bell Labs, one of its creators was William Shockley who moved to Palo Alto where he founded Shockley Semiconductor Labs in 1956. One of his chief engineers was Intel Founder Gordon Moore who co-founded Intel in 1968. The emergence of the personal computer is closely tied to the groundbreaking efforts of Silicon Valley firms like Apple and Intel, which helped launch the PC industry. Additionally, the revolutionary Netscape Navigator web browser emerged from this region, paving the way...
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