Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness

“As quickly as she heard me enter, Elvia awoke from a lightweight sleep that had overcome her as she anxiously waited: ‘How did it go?’ Excited, I exclaimed: ‘It really works!’ We embraced, nearly overwhelmed with emotions of euphoria and happiness, conscious that one thing epochal had occurred. On that chilly January evening of 1971, the world’s first microprocessor was born!”

The creation of the microprocessor launched the digital age. The important thing expertise permitting unprecedented integration, and the design of the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, had been the achievement of Federico Faggin. Shrinking a complete pc onto a tiny and cheap piece of silicon would come to outline our every day lives, imbuing myriad units and on a regular basis objects with computational intelligence.

In Silicon, internationally acknowledged inventor and entrepreneur Federico Faggin chronicles his “4 lives”: his childhood in war-torn Northern Italy; his pioneering work in American microelectronics; his profitable profession as a high-tech entrepreneur; and his newer explorations into the mysteries of consciousness. On this heartfelt memoir, Faggin paints vivid anecdotes, steps readers by way of society-changing technological breakthroughs, and shares private insights, as every of his lives propels the subsequent.