Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division...

National Semiconductor acquired several companies like Fairchild Semiconductor (1987), and Cyrix (1997). However, over time National Semiconductor spun off...

Motorola, then to Fairchild Semiconductor. Jerry Sanders joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1961 as a young engineer. At Fairchild, Sanders quickly rose...

group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. William Shockley had in 1956 recruited a...

Faggin also created, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which...

on a semiconductor crystal, using p–n junction isolation. The first monolithic IC chip was invented by Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor. He invented...

of Fairchild Semiconductor. Widlar decided to move to a semiconductor manufacturing company, and in 1963 Jerry Sanders, a Fairchild Semiconductor salesman...

Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with...

Jackson from Fairchild Semiconductor, replaced Steve as the second leader for the next 20 years. Major acquisitions added SANYO Semiconductor in 2011 and...

inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979. His Semiconductor Division of Fairchild Camera played a defining role in Silicon Valley. He held...