In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor became the third company in Silicon Valley. Of course it wasn't called Silicon Valley then, since the whole silicon industry was just starting to evolve.

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Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore had done well for themselves at Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce had become general manager, and Moore was head of Research and Development. But the company was still ...

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That honor goes to Intel for the 4004. We pick up the tale with Robert Noyce, who had co-invented the IC while at Fairchild Semiconductor. In July 1968 he left Fairchild to co-found Intel for the ...

The consensus seems to fall on three employees of Fairchild Semiconductor: Don Forbes, Rex Rice, and Bryant “Buck” Rogers, and a credible source, the Computer History Museum, backs up that ...

James Barnett was a founder of Xilinx in 1984. Before founding Xilinx he was with Zilog. His early career was spent at Fairchild Semiconductor, Raytheon Semiconductor, American Microsystems, Ness Time ...

Named from a 1965 article by the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore, it's more of an observation than a law, though one that has both guided and driven the exponential growth in ...

He joined Fairchild Semiconductor in the early days of Silicon Valley, and his work on the F system paved the way for future consoles like Atari and the NES. Read more about Lawson’s ...

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