Craving for chips: Best books, podcasts on the world of semiconductors

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During a recent trip to the Intel Museum at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, I spotted the original copy of a the1965 issue of the Electronics magazine, which featured the breakthrough article – Cramming More Components On to Integrated Circuits – by Gordon Moore, an electronics engineer, who went on to run Intel. Often considered the most influential trade magazine article ever published, it foretold the future of modern computing. Some of us do remember an ‘Intel Inside’ sticker on our early laptops and desktops which asserted that it’s all powered by a semiconductor chip – the foundation...