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Fairchild Semiconductor

Eight engineers leave Shockley’s laboratory to establish Fairchild Semiconductor with backing from Fairchild Camera and Instrument.

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At a glance

Founded
1957
Headquarters
Not recorded
Category
Semiconductors · historical company
Employees
Not recorded

Founders in the archive

RNRobert NoyceGMGordon MooreJBJulius BlankVGVictor GrinichJHJean HoerniEKEugene KleinerJLJay LastSRSheldon Roberts

On the timeline

1957Fairchild Semiconductor starts a Silicon Valley family tree1959Hoerni invents the planar silicon manufacturing process1960Fairchild builds a planar integrated circuit1965Gordon Moore charts the growth of integrated circuits
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