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Premieres Feb. 5, 2013 // Robert Noyce's invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.

Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a startup company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately reshaped the future. More at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...