Malone Michael S. The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

Harper Business, 2014 – 560 p. – ISBN 9780062226761, 0062226789Based on unprecedented access to the corporation’s archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation—the essential company of the digital age— told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company’s history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove.
Often hailed the “most important company in the world,” Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital economy. The legendary inventors of the microprocessor-the single most important product in the modern world-Intel today builds the tiny “engines” that power almost every intelligent electronic device on the planet.
But the true story of Intel is the human story of the trio of geniuses behind it. Michael S. Malone reveals how each brought different things to Intel, and at different times. Noyce, the most respected high tech figure of his generation, brought credibility (and money) to the company’s founding; Moore made Intel the world’s technological leader; and Grove, has relentlessly driven the company to ever-higher levels of success and competitiveness. Without any one of these figures, Intel would never have achieved its historic success; with them, Intel made possible the personal computer, Internet, telecommunications, and the personal electronics revolutions.
The Intel Trinity is not just the story of Intel’s legendary past; it also offers an analysis of the formidable challenges that lie ahead as the company struggles to maintain its dominance, its culture, and its legacy.Introduction: Artifacts
The Fairchildren (1957–1968)
The Traitorous Eight
The Greatest Company That Never Was
Digital Diaspora
Start-Up (1968–1971)
The Ambivalent Recruit
Intelligent Electronics
Robert Noyce: The Preacher’s Son
The Demon of Grinnell
The Pig Thief
A Man on the Move
Gordon Moore: Dr. Precision
A Singular Start-Up
The Wild West
Bittersweet Memories
The Spirit of the Age (1972–1987)
Miracle in Miniature
The Inventor
A Sliver of History
Dealing Down
The Philosopher’s Chip
Product of the Century
The Most Important Company in the World (1988–1999)
Crush
Silicon Valley Aristocracy
Public Affairs
Consumer Fantasies
A Thousand Fathers
The Knights of Moore’s Law
(Over) Ambitions
Beatification
The Heart of Andrew Grove
Mother and Child
Father and Child Reunion
Andy in Exile
Freedom Fighter
A New Life, a New Name
Bylined
Riding a Rocket
For the Cause
East of Eden
Turn at the Tiller
Eminence
Crash
Memory Loss
Andy Agonistes
Mentoring a Legend
The Man of the Hour
Juggernaut
Empyrean
The Swimmer
The Price of Success (2000–2014)
Family Matters
Inside Intel Inside
Wired World
Pentium
The Bug of All Bugs
The Endless Lawsuit
Mea Culpa
Bunny Hop
Running the Asylum
Aftermath The Full Weight of the Law
Epilogue: Roaring at the Night
Appendix: A Tutorial on Technology
A Note on Sources
NotesPhotographic Insert
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