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...first computers, even those built with transistors, were put together like early radios, with tangles of wires connecting each component. But soon electronics manufacturers realized that the wiring could be "printed" directly on a board, eliminating much of the hand-wiring. Then came another quantum leap into the miniworld. In the late 1950s, Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby and Fairchild Semiconductor's Robert Noyce (one of eight defectors from Shockley's firm whom he scathingly called the "traitorous eight") had the same brainstorm. Almost simultaneously, they realized that any number of transistors could be etched directly...
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