Learn how the revolutions wrought by the brilliant minds of Silicon Valley were made possible when, in 1957, young physicist Robert Noyce and eight colleagues broke away from their mentor, Nobel Prize-winner William Shockley, and created their own semiconductor business in California's Santa Clara County. This installment of "American Experience" offers an exciting history of how the invention of the microchip soon transformed that rural community into a hotbed of technological innovation. 90 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH).