The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution runs 9.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Tom Perkins (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 3,827 Computers & Technology audiobooks in our catalog.
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Tom Perkins narrates 208 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,284 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Computers & Technology shelf
400 Computers & Technology audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution is an audiobook by T.R. Reid: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Tom Perkins, released October 20, 2020, on the Computers & Technology and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Tom Perkins
- Released
- October 20, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Computers & Technology, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9781705237083
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution as an audiobook?
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution?
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution is narrated by Tom Perkins.