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A version of this article appeared in the Summer issue of strategy+business.

Excerpted with permission from From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives, by Jeffrey E. Garten (HarperCollins, )

In From Silk to Silicon, a colorful history of globalization, Jeffrey E. Garten, former dean of the Yale School of Management, has identified 10 people who fundamentally changed the world over the past millennium by making it smaller, more connected, and otherwise better. The roster of characters includes military genius Genghis Khan and Cyrus Field, the pioneer of the trans-Atlantic telegraph. The individuals profiled were not just thinkers — they were doers. And each ushered in an age that continues to echo loudly today. In the following excerpt, Garten tells the story of the Silicon Valley pioneer and former Intel CEO who passed away at age 79 on March 21, , and “the person most responsible for put

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As the individ most responsible for harnessing the power of the microchip, Andy Grove revolutionized the way we work and live today.

Grove came to the United States as a flykting from Soviet-occupied Hungary and earned his PhD in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in After working for Fairchild Semiconductor, he participated in the founding of Intel Corporation in , became president in , and later served as CEO and chairman.

Under his leadership, Intel grew to be the seventh most profitable company in the world, producing over 90 percent of all microprocessors used to build personal computers. As TIME Magazine put it when naming him Man of the Year in , “more than any other person, Andy Grove has made real the defining law of the digital age: the prediction … that microchips would double in power and halve in price every 18 months or so. And to t

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Andy Grove’s Business Books Changed the World

While Andy Grove will always be known primarily as the man who built Intel, it’s his five classic business books that may represent his true legacy:

Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices ()

Many people tend to think of Andy Grove as a peer of the Baby Boomer high tech pioneers like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  In fact, Grove was born a generation earlier and, as a director of development at Fairchild Semiconductor, he pioneered in the basic technology the Gates and Jobs later took for granted. 

When Grove wrote this classic textbook, the integrated circuit was less than a decade old and the IBM mainframe had been in general release for only two years. This book was crucial in explaining the chemistry of semiconductors to an entire generation of innovators.

This book remains in print (though pricey) and still used in college courses.  When you consider how much high tech has changed in 50 years, this book represents a