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You probably don’t know his name.
But Mohamed Atalla helped create the technology inside almost every computer, smartphone, data center, and digital device on Earth.
At Bell Labs, Atalla solved one of the biggest problems holding back silicon technology. Then, together with Dawon Kahng, he created the MOSFET — the tiny electronic switch that became the foundation of the modern microchip.
Today, billions of MOSFETs can exist inside a single processor. They power the internet, artificial intelligence, smartphones, and almost everything we think of as modern technology.
So why do we remember the CEOs, founders, and famous inventors... but almost never the people who built the foundations underneath them?
This is the hidden story of Mohamed Atalla — an immigrant engineer whose work quietly changed the world.
Tech Stories tells the hidden, surprising stories behind the world’s most influential tech companies, inventions, and creators—packed with insights, suspense, and real lessons you can apply.
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