Movies and TvShows featuring "semiconductor" theme.

Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate financial circumstances, he is sorry that he cannot afford to send his daughter Yoon-mi to university like other parents. Yet, with a bright smile on her face, Yoon-mi tells her father that she will one day buy him a new car and pay college tuition fees for her younger sibling. However, less than two years after Yoon-mi begins her job at a large corporate company, she gets seriously ill and returns home. Sang-gu is heartbroken to see his young daughter in such a condition.

Transistorized! is a documentary film that explores the invention of the transistor and its significance in the field of electronics. It delves into the rivalry and personality conflicts between the inventors, as well as the serendipitous moments that led to its creation. The film also showcases the transformative role of the transistor in various technologies, from telephone and radio to the advent of the computer chip.

Erkki Kurenniemi was arguably one of the first artists to propose or fantasise about a complete cultural surrender to cyber existence, and his entire career, covering such diverse fields as artificial intelligence, music, engineering, film, dance or rhetorics, testifies to this desire to escape the limits of the human body and transgress into a different dimension, bordering on techno-fetishism. In his 1964 short Electronics in the World of Tomorrow, Kurenniemi presents a slideshow of the most aseptic signs of technological imagination: diagrams, chips, machines, cold surfaces. But footage of human warmth also comes up - mostly in black and white, as if to give humans the status of a memory. Originally silent, the film was in this version endowed with a electronic music piece by Kurenneimi himself: a cold, aggressive soundtrack that could be said to present technology as a potentially menacing affair, although this is a reading that the director would certainly refute.

The Empire of Shame (2014) is a documentary drama that explores the devastating effects of industrialization. It sheds light on the labor rights abuses and the tragic consequences faced by factory workers in the semiconductor industry. The film exposes the link between the industry and the high rates of leukemia among the workers. Through powerful storytelling, it reveals the dark side of industrial progress and the human toll it takes.

More than 400 electronics, computer and chip companies in Silicon Valley can trace their genealogy back to the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. Through interviews with historians and surviving former employees of Shockley Labs, filmmaker Craig Addison recounts the events that indirectly led to the explosive growth of Silicon Valley.