Noyce, Sanders, and Sporck had all started their careers at Fairchild: Noyce the technological visionary; Sanders the marketing showman; Sporck the manufacturing boss barking at his employees to build faster, cheaper, better. A decade later they’d become competitors as CEOs of three of America’s biggest chipmakers. But as Japan’s market share grew, they decided it was time to band together again. At stake was the future of America’s semiconductor industry. Huddled over a table in a private dining room at Ming’s, they devised a new strategy to save it. After a decade of ignoring the government,
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