Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Jan 2008 21:13 UTC, submitted by irbis
"When you think about Silicon Valley you think about modern tech giants like Google, Yahoo and others, but did you know that this high-tech center of the Universe owes its existence to secret government cooperation dating back four decades? It certainly seems outlandish, but in a seminar given back on December 18th on the Google campus, entrepreneur and lecturer Steve Blank explained how the valley was born from billions of dollars worth of signals intelligence contracts from World War II and into the 1960s."
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"Let's just say that Blank links two major chip companies, AMD and Intel all the way back to William Shockley..."
I may be a bit old, 42, but I really thought this was common knowledge among people claiming to be "experts" in electronics (or at least, PC hardware), such as Tom's Hardware Guide. I was wrong apparently.
(Intel and AMD were both spinnoffs from Fairchild Semiconductor, which in turn was an offspring of Shockley Semiconductor.)
Edited 2008-01-20 20:38 UTC