WHY DID tECHNOLOGICAL aDVANCEMENT tAKE cENTER sTAGE in The Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley took its place it the limelight of technological advancement due to the founding of many companies as well as inventions within the area. Stanford graduates William Hewlett and David Packer found Hewlett - Packard in a Palo Alto garage successfully making a precision audio oscillator.
In 1956 William Shockley founds a semiconductor lab improving silicon based transistors of which he won a Nobel Prize for
In 1971 Intel created the first microprocessor. model 4004
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