{"id":839,"date":"2013-09-19T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=839"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T20:23:14","slug":"fairchild-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=839","title":{"rendered":"Fairchild Semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Ascendant Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nDescendent Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nCompany<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shockley Semiconductor<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nCo-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<\/span><\/td>\nAmelco<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nJean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts founded Amelco in 1961<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intel<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n– Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore co-founded Intel 1968<\/p>\n

– Federico Faggin joined Intel in 1970<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

AMD<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nJerry Sanders founded AMD in 1969<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
National Semiconductor<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nCharlie Sporck founded National Semiconductor in 1967.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Intersil<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nJean 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<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Escort Memory Systems<\/span><\/td>\nFounded by Victor Grinich in 1968<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rheem Semiconductor<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nFounded, in 1959, by Fairchild General Manager, Ed Baldwin and other Fairchild employees. Rheem Semiconductor was subsidiary of Rheem Manufacturing.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSGS<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nIn 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.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPrecision Monolithics, Inc.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nGeorge Erdi left Fairchild to be a founder of Precision in the early 70\u2032s.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Company Overview<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Accomplishments<\/h2>\n

1959 – Planar Transistors (Jean Hoerni and Robert Noyce)<\/p>\n

Planar Integrated Circuit (Noyce)<\/p>\n

Silicon-Gate MOS process (Federico Faggin)<\/p>\n

3708, 1st Silicon Gate MOS Chip<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chip Identification<\/h2>\n

Chip Logos<\/p>\n

Chip Numbers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fairchild Chips<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Microprocessors<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU’s<\/span><\/td>\nFairchild F8<\/a>, Macrologic Bipolar, Macrologic CMOS\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MCU’s<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bit-Slice<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Memory Devices<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ROM<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROM<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EPROM<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EEPROM<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CCD Memory<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bubble Memory<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 <\/span>General Use Support Chips<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shift Registers<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interfaces<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communications<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Second Sourced Chips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Microprocessors<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU’s<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MCU’s<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bit-Slice<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Memory Devices<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ROM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EPROM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EEPROM<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CCD Memory<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bubble Memory<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 <\/span>General Use Support Chips<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shift Registers<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interfaces<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Communications<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Company Pedigree   \u00a0Ascendant 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 … <\/p>\n

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