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A coffee table book like no other. Only from Arena Books.

Silicon is the element that built modernity. Silicon is a beautiful book about the world of transistors, chips, and the greatest technology revolution of all time.

Silicon is an art book and anthology from Arena Books. Inside, you'll find ten illuminating chapters about the semiconductor revolution and hundreds of full-page photographs of computer chips from the last 50 years. Silicon covers the semiconductor revolution from the discovery of silicon itself to the most advanced chip businesses, like Nvidia and Intel.

With a special foil stamped cover, a genuine thread binding, and 384 pages of European archival paper, this hardware will last a lifetime.

The $99 preorder price includes tax and free shipping in US and Canada in May 2026.

Europe, Japan, Mexico, Australia/NZ preorders here!

Silicon is an art book and anthology from Arena Books. Inside, you'll find ten illuminating chapters about the semiconductor revolution and hundreds of full-page photographs of computer chips from the last 50 years. Silicon covers the semiconductor revolution from the discovery of silicon itself to the most advanced chip businesses, like Nvidia and Intel.

With a special foil stamped cover, a genuine thread binding, and 384 pages of European archival paper, this hardware will last a lifetime.

The $99 preorder price includes tax and free shipping in US and Canada in May 2026.

Non-US/CA preorders here!

A beautiful book for tinkerers, technologists, and dreamers.

A beautiful book for tinkerers, technologists, and dreamers.

Materials

150 gsm paper. Thread binding.

Format

9.75 x 12.25 x 1.25 inches | 4.5 lbs | 384 pp.

Publication

May 2026 by Arena Books

Production

Printed and bound in Belgium

A beautiful book for tinkerers, technologists, and dreamers.

Chapters

Teaching Sand to Think by Dylan Patel & Jeff Koch

The inside story of how technologists are turning silicon into machine intelligence


Waiting for Berzelius by Julia Steinberg

How a Swedish chemist isolated silicon and anticipated the search for machine consciousness


The Czochralski Crucible by Brian Balkus

The Polish scientist who made silicon pure enough for computers was buried in an unmarked grave


And Then There Were Eight by Maxwell Meyer

The story of how the "Traitorous Eight" made Silicon Valley


Moore’s Laws by Rob L’Heureux

The sixty-year marathon to fulfill Gordon Moore’s predictions of exponential growth in semiconductors


ASML’s Throne by Stephen McBride

A struggling startup in a leaky Dutch shed built the most important and complex machine in the world


The Nvidia Factor by Zaitoon Zafar

The story of how Jensen Huang built Nvidia from a gaming company to the engine of the AI revolution


After Complexity by Anna-Sofia Lesiv

In building machines that "think," humans have built systems so complex we don't even understand them


Freedom in the Silicon Age by Miquel Vila

Silicon technologies are young. What will they mean in the course of history?


The Silicon Man by Ginevra Davis

Are humans biological bootloaders for our silicon successors?

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Copyright © 2025 Intergalactic Media Corporation of America - All rights reserved

Copyright © 2025
Intergalactic Media Corporation of America - All rights reserved