Robert Noyce

A third fallacy from Dr. Lisa Su of AMD, and a Ph.D. from MIT: "I saw that MIT Ph.D.'s worked for Harvard MBAs, and the truth is that made absolutely no sense to me."

India's VC ecosystem looks on the verge of collapse, with governance issues and down rounds. Will it survive after growing for 20 years?

The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today's chips are among humankind's most complex inventions.

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Remembering the man who coined the law, and examining what really made Moore's law a law after all.

Moore also made his famous observation, now known as Moore's Law, three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.

With great sadness, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces the passing of our founder, Gordon Moore. With his characteristic humility and word econom…

Richard McCormack on the legacy of the executive, who fought to save U.S. manufacturing jobs.

The first 8-bit microprocessor, the TMX 1795 had the same architecture as the 8008 but was built months before the 8008. Never sold commercially, this Texas Instruments processor is now almost forgotten even though it had a huge impact on the computer industry. In this article, I present the surprising history of the TMX 1795 in detail, look at other early processors, and explain how the TMX 1795 almost became the…

Fewer innovators means less innovation.

If you want to watch the video, it is below: Japan's semiconductor history is utterly fascinating to me. There are some other really good articles about this period of time. I recommend this great piece from Doug of Fabricated KnowledgeThanks for reading The Asianometry Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

This week, Intel announced plans to further reduce its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and develop more sustainable technology solutions. The company pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040.

Engineers at MIT and NREL have developed a heat engine with no moving parts that is as efficient as a steam turbine.

Ornithologist Steve Kress's once-controversial methods are the gold standard for saving seabirds around the world.

Intel lost over 60% of its value in 2024, the biggest drop in its 53 years as a public company. Broadcom's stock price more than doubled.

Intel is laying off 15,000 workers, 15-percent of its workforce, as part of a sweeping, $10 billion cost cutting measure, the company announced Thursday.

John Womack's Labor Power and Strategy makes the case that by targeting strategic industries, workers can not only win power for themselves but also for labor generally.

It is difficult, given what Silicon Valley has become, to convey exactly what it was like in the 1970s and '80s.

Gordon Moore's vision led to laptops, microprocessors everywhere

"It's the human spirit. It's what built Silicon Valley. It's the real thing."