y, had been the general manager of Fairchild Semiconductor and was one of the creators of the integrated circuit. He was also a boy scout and received his Ph.D. from M.I.T.. Gordon Moore was the head of research and development of Fairchild, the winner of numerous important patents and received his Ph.D. from Caltech. Before starting Intel they had been part of start-ups Shockley Laboratories and then Fairchild, but decided to start their own computer company. After founding the company Moore and Noyce hired Andy Grove as Director of Operations. Born in Hungry in 1936 as Andras Graf he came to the United States in 1956, by 1963 he had received his Ph.D., got a job at Fairchild Semiconductor in the R&D department and lectured at UC Berkeley. The ultimate details guy, Grove was perfect to propel Intel to the successes it would achieve. Intel rose to dominance through technological innovation, aggressive marketing, tough business tactics, and the liberal use of legal firepower. Intel uses the threat of lawsuits and a team of private investigators against their employees to keep them from going astray as well as to head off outside attempts to discover its secrets. as evidenced by Intel's seven year battle with AMD, a rival chip manufacturer, that at one point threatened to divide the entire computer industry. This book is also the story of Andrew Grove whose unpopular and controversial decisions have kept Intel at the top of the chip market. A good, behind-the-scenes look at the computer industry and its effect on peoples' lives.This is the behind-the-scenes, blow-by-blow drama of a company's initial public offering, or IPO. "Going public" is the pivotal moment when a company makes its first public sell of stock. Part of the magic are hot start-up firms catapulted into the headlines with stories of share holding staff members reaping millions, and executives becoming business legends overnight. The company is MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., o...
