Word: siliconing
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...company, now known popularly as Intel, thrived and its product, the silicon microchip...
...boss, the famous chemist Gordon Moore, discovered the secret value of silicon. In 1965, he and his colleagues discovered that little pieces of the element could store and transfer electronic data without emitting energy that would overheat, and ultimately destroy, any computer of practical size...
Computer scientists had been plagued for years by overheated transistors that regularly threatened to explode, and Moore had the solution. In 1968 he created a company to manufacture silicon devices which could conduct electricity without explosive side effects. He called the company Integrated Electronics...
...Since silicon is derived from sand, it was essentially limitless and, more importantly, relatively cheap to produce...
...personal computer age had not caught on yet, so many companies did not yet realize the possibilities of the new silicon microchips...