Company Pedigree
| Ascendant Companies | Descendent Companies | ||
| Company | Comments | Company | Comments |
| Shockley Semiconductor | Co-founded, in 1957, by “Traitorous Eight” from Shockley Semiconductor: Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts | Amelco | Jean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts founded Amelco in 1961 |
| Intel | – Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore co-founded Intel 1968
– Federico Faggin joined Intel in 1970 |
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| AMD | Jerry Sanders founded AMD in 1969 | ||
| National Semiconductor | Charlie Sporck founded National Semiconductor in 1967. | ||
| Intersil | Jean Hoerni founded Intersil (after co-founding Amelco, 1961, and Union Carbide Electronics, 1964 (UCE was later sold to Solitron in 1969)) to make digital watches in 1967 | ||
| Escort Memory Systems | Founded by Victor Grinich in 1968 | ||
| Rheem Semiconductor | Founded, in 1959, by Fairchild General Manager, Ed Baldwin and other Fairchild employees. Rheem Semiconductor was subsidiary of Rheem Manufacturing. | ||
| SGS | In 1960 Fairchild formed a partnership with the Italian government. This partnership took the form of an investment in Italy’s SGS resulting in new company SGS-Fairchild SpA. In 1968 Fairchild withdrew from the partnership. SGS-Fairchild was renamed back to SGS. | ||
| Precision Monolithics, Inc. | George Erdi left Fairchild to be a founder of Precision in the early 70′s. | ||
Company Overview
Fairchild was founded by Sheridan Fairchild and the “Traitorous Eight”, in 1957. Much of Fairchild’s talent left to found other Silicon Valley companies. Fairchild Semiconductor was bought and later spun-off by National Semiconductor, in 1997.
Accomplishments
1959 – Planar Transistors (Jean Hoerni and Robert Noyce)
Planar Integrated Circuit (Noyce)
Silicon-Gate MOS process (Federico Faggin)
3708, 1st Silicon Gate MOS Chip
Chip Identification
Chip Logos
Chip Numbers
Fairchild Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | Fairchild F8, Macrologic Bipolar, Macrologic CMOS |
| MCU’s | |
| Bit-Slice | |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| CCD Memory | |
| Bubble Memory | |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | |
| Interfaces | |
| Communications | |
Second Sourced Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | |
| MCU’s | |
| Bit-Slice | |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| CCD Memory | |
| Bubble Memory | |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | |
| Interfaces | |
| Communications | |