Starting Up: Silicon Valley's Origins

Intel's first hire (from left), Andy Grove, and Intel co-founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1978, the 10th anniversary of the company. Grove is sitting on a graphical layout (a rubylith) of one of Intel's early microprocessors.

Intel's first hire (from left), Andy Grove, and Intel co-founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1978, the 10th anniversary of the company. Grove is sitting on a graphical layout (a rubylith) of one of Intel's early microprocessors.

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In Silicon Valley, the spotlight is often on young entrepreneurs with fresh ideas that will change the world. But for decades, two titans of the tech world thrived in the fast-paced industry: legendary Intel executives Gordon Moore and Andy Grove.

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Fairchild's first microchip combined four transistors, six resistors and their interconnecting wires onto a single sliver of silicon, in 1960. Today's microprocessors can employ more than 1 billion transistors.

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Virginia Klausmeier (left) makes her pitch for Garage Technology Ventures to invest in her clean diesel fuel company, Sylvatex, to Bill Reichert and Joyce Chung, two of the firm's general partners.

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Intel's staff of just over 100 employees outside their first building in Mountain View, in 1969. Front left, co-founder Robert Noyce; front right, co-founder Gordon Moore.

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