Microchip by Jeffrey Zygmont, Perseus, $25, ISBN 0738205613 Reviewed by Wendy G. Grossman
THE microchip, heart of every device from mobile phones to cars, merits its own biography. We may think computers changed the world, but Jeffrey Zygmont is right when he says that the all-pervasive microchip has made the real difference.
Early development, was as you’d expect, marred by disagreements and false starts, and like any Silicon Valley story was nursed along by mavericks, even in already large companies such as Texas Instruments.
However incredible we may now find it, engineers did not instantly welcome the idea of a…
