Intel and AMD: How the Chip That Runs Everything Came to Be

Silicon Valley is named after the silicon in computer processors. Half a century ago, they were slow and the size of an apartment, but since then they have shrunk hundreds of times and accelerated billions of times. It seems that Moore's Law is no longer working, and silicon as the basis of electronics is becoming a thing of the past. How did it all start and what is coming to replace it? This issue is about Intel and its sworn friend AMD, about the creation of a processor and the insane complexity of producing computer chips.