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Bill said

TIL - Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce were two of the pioneers of the semiconductor & integrated circuitry industry. They basically built 'Silicon Valley'. When it came time to name their company, they were initially going to call it 'Moore Noyce'. However they felt the name sounded too much like 'More Noise', so they scrapped it and their company is known today as the INTEL Corporation. The name was derived from INTegrated ELectronics.

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Sort of add to this as a corresponding statement, but essentially captured German magnetic technology after WWII was extensively researched, analyzed by analysts, data industry scientists for several decades and some of their inventions were the first Beta-max VCR recorder, 8-and-12-track rock and roll/entertainment musical studio recording machines until computers and samplers replaced them by the early-to-mid 80's, first cell phones which debuted IIRC, in 1971.

I'm also not entirely sure the Internet, World Wide Web, IPhones and IPad or even search engines exist in their complex, sophisticated commercialized form if it werent for the MIC (Military-Industrial Complex) or NASA. The first computers, semiconductors were utilized and functioned more like word processors with NASA missions throughout the 1960's as the Arbiternet and the Intranet before it became commercialized by the early 80's by Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and INTEL