tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
tt
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.
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?









