"Traitorous Eight"

By fedachure

  • 8 young men leave Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories

    Gordon E. Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert N. Noyce, Victor H. Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean A. Hoerni and Jay T. Last leave Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories due to poor work conditions and treatment.

  • Fairchild Semiconductor is born

    the "Traitorous Eight" starts a new company in Silicon Valley called Fairchild Semiconductor

  • Robert Noyce's Monolithic Integrated Circuit Patent

    Robert Noyce submitted a patent for a monolithic integrated circut

  • Patent Accepted for Monolithic Integrated Circuit

    Robert Noyce's patent is accepted for his Monolithic Integrated Circuit and started the dawn of the integrated circuit era

  • Fairchild opens facility is South Portland, Maine

    Fairchild decides to open a new facility in Souht Portland, Maine for testing, manufacturing, and assembly

  • The NPN planar power transistor

    Fairchild is the first incorporate a thin-film emitter resistor process

  • First OpAmp (Operational Amplifier)

    Fairchild develops the first OpAmp (Operational Amplifier) used in the industry

  • First standard TTL product

    Fairchild launches the first standard TTL product

  • Leaders Leave

    Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore leave company to go create a new company soon to be called Intel

  • Apollo

    The Apollo program bought a million silicon chips, and a large amount of them were manufactured by Fairchild

  • First CMOS non-volatile electrically erasable memory

    Fairchild introduces the first CMOS non-volatile electrically erasable memory for application

  • Sold

    Fairchild was sold to the National Semiconductor

  • Independent

    Fairchild becomes and independent business through the industry’s first leveraged buyout

  • Fairchild Goes Public

    Fairchild goes public in the New York Stock Exchange

  • Growth

    Fairchild grows by acquiring TranSiC which is a Swedish transistor company