Fairchild Semiconductor

Extracted Attributes

• Status

  Acquired by ON Semiconductor

• Founded

  1957-01-01

• Founders

  Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Eugene Kleiner, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts

• Industry

  Semiconductor and Electronics manufacturing

• Final CEO

  Hassane S. El-Khoury

• Headquarters

  San Jose, California, United States

• Key Products

  Transistors, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Operational Amplifiers, Power Electronics

Timeline

• Fairchild Semiconductor is founded by the 'traitorous eight' as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1957-01-01

• Robert Noyce invents the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that revolutionized the electronics industry. (Source: Fairchild Semiconductor History)

  1959-01-01

• Fairchild brings the first commercial integrated circuits to market at a price of $120 per chip. (Source: Britannica Money)

  1961-01-01

• The company opens a semiconductor assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1965-01-01

• Fairchild settles a patent war with Texas Instruments through a cross-licensing agreement. (Source: All About Circuits)

  1966-01-01

• The Apollo program purchases one million silicon chips from Fairchild for the moon mission. (Source: Britannica Money)

  1969-01-01

• Schlumberger Limited acquires Fairchild Semiconductor. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1979-01-01

• National Semiconductor purchases Fairchild from Schlumberger. (Source: Fairchild Semiconductor History)

  1987-01-01

• Fairchild re-emerges as an independent company through a management-led leveraged buyout from National Semiconductor. (Source: Fairchild Semiconductor History)

  1997-01-01

• Fairchild is launched as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange. (Source: Fairchild Semiconductor History)

  1999-08-01

• ON Semiconductor completes the acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2016-09-01

Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the "traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. It became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits. Schlumberger bought the firm in 1979 and sold it to National Semiconductor in 1987; Fairchild was spun off as an independent company again in 1997. In September 2016, Fairchild was acquired by ON Semiconductor. The company had locations in the United States in San Jose, California; San Rafael, California; South Portland, Maine; West Jordan, Utah; Puyallup, Washington; and Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. Outside the US, it operated locations in Australia; Singapore; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines, among others.

Web Search Results

• Fairchild Semiconductor - Wikipedia

  Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the "traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. It became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits. Schlumberger bought the firm in 1979 and sold it to National Semiconductor in 1987; Fairchild was spun off as an independent company again in 1997. In September 2016, Fairchild was acquired by ON Semiconductor. [...] Sales due to Fairchild semiconductor division had doubled each year and by the mid-1960s comprised two-thirds of total sales of the parent company. In 1966, Fairchild's sales were second to those of Texas Instruments, followed in third place by Motorola. Noyce was rewarded with the position of corporate vice-president and hence became the de facto head of the semiconductor division. [...] By 1965, Fairchild's process improvements had brought low-cost manufacturing to the semiconductor industry – making Fairchild nearly the only profitable semiconductor manufacturer in the United States. Fairchild dominated the market in DTL, op-amps and mainframe computer custom circuits. In 1965, Fairchild opened a semiconductor assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico. At its peak, the plant employed over a thousand Navajos, the majority of whom were women. In The Shiprock Dedication Commemorative Brochure released by the Fairchild company, the Diné (Navajo) women circuit makers were celebrated as "culture workers who produced circuits as part of the 'reproductive' labor of expressing Navajo culture, rather than merely for wages." This claim was based on the opinion

• Fairchild Semiconductor | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica Money

  CEO: : Mr. Hassane S. El-Khoury Fairchild Semiconductor, former American electronics company that shares credit with Texas Instruments Incorporated for the invention of the integrated circuit. Founded in 1957 in Santa Clara, California, Fairchild was among the earliest firms to successfully manufacture transistors and integrated circuits. Its final headquarters were in Sunnyvale, California, while research and production facilities were located across the United States and in Asia. [...] In 1961 Fairchild brought the integrated circuit (IC) to market at a price of $120 per chip. At that time, however, any electronics firm could wire together high-end transistors to produce the same circuits for much less. A buyer had to have a serious space constraint to justify purchasing ICs. Fortunately for Fairchild, the U.S. space program had just such a problem, and the IC was the solution. By 1969 the Apollo program alone had purchased one million silicon chips, a significant fraction of them manufactured by Fairchild. [...] By the late 1970s Fairchild proved unable to compete with the Fairchildren. In 1979 Schlumberger Limited, a French company primarily known for supplying oil field services and equipment, acquired the company and its historic name. Less than a decade later Schlumberger attempted to sell the firm to Fujitsu Limited of Japan. After the U.S. government quashed the sale, National Semiconductor purchased Fairchild in 1987 but also was unable to turn it into a profitable business. In 1996 National spun off Fairchild as an independent firm headquartered in South Portland, Maine, where Fairchild had been operating the world’s longest continuously functioning semiconductor fabrication facility. Fairchild also manufactured integrated circuits for consumer electronics in California, Utah, and South

• Fairchild Semiconductor

  The company was founded by a group of disgruntled employees who left William Shockley's company, Shockley Semiconductor – the "traitorous eight," including Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. The new company started out producing transistors, selling their first 100 to IBM at $150 apiece. Two years later, Fairchild researchers invented the integrated chip, which really put the company on the map. The company grew from twelve to twelve thousand employees, and was soon raking in some $130 million a year. Led by Robert Noyce, the company introduced what has become a distinctly "Californian" style of management, complete with casual clothing and laid back atmosphere. [...] a variety of power, electronics, analog and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world. [...] Fairchild was the seedbed for a great industrial complex, as over the years many of the founders left to form other companies. Dubbed the "Fairchildren," these defectors helped Silicon Valley grow into the semiconductor mecca it is today.

• Fairchild Semiconductor History

  The original Fairchild Semiconductor was established in 1957 and is the recognized founder of Silicon Valley. Robert Noyce, one of the eight founders of the Company, was the co-inventor of the integrated circuit. Over the years Fairchild’s innovations launched a new industry and began what many refer to as the second industrial revolution. ICs developed by Fairchild helped the United States win the race to the moon and revolutionized the computer industry. Dozens of notable companies in Silicon Valley, including Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, can trace their roots to Fairchild. [...] In 1987, National Semiconductor purchased Fairchild and integrated what were then the Fairchild businesses into National’s operations. Fairchild reappeared as an independent company in 1997 when the combined logic, non-volatile memory and discrete power & signal technologies businesses of National were purchased in the first management-led leveraged buyout in the semiconductor industry. In August 1999, Fairchild was launched as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange. A month later, the United States Postal Service honored Fairchild and its contributions to society with the unveiling of the Integrated Circuit stamp, featuring one of Fairchild’s significant IC designs from the early 1960s.

• The “Traitorous Eight” and the Rise of Fairchild Semiconductor - News

  While Shockley Semiconductor was the technical founding member of Silicon Valley, Fairchild was by far the most influential. Because the company was the originator of many core technologies used today, it became a critical jumping-off point for employees seeking to branch out. Fairchild—along with its thousands of subsequent "Fairchildren"—have left an undeniable mark on Silicon Valley and beyond. Intel, AMD, Xilinx, Altera, LSI Logic, and National Semiconductor are some notable names on this list. Noyce’s own mentorships created a domino effect; his influence on Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page would ultimately help shape the founding of Apple and Google. Fairchild Semiconductor saw 31 spinoff companies [...] The young startup quickly found its legs. Teams rapidly created their own workspaces and core components. They were tasked with winding diffusion tubes, growing silicon crystals, and creating manufacturing processes from near scratch. The support from Hoerni (developer of the planar process), Kleiner (administrator of Fairchild), and others was integral in making fast breakthroughs. [...] Meanwhile, Texas Instruments (TI) held a patent for Jack Kilby's invention of the hybrid IC, built using the patented principle of integration. TI started a patent war with Fairchild, which was eventually settled with a cross-licensing agreement in 1966. While there is still some dispute on who invented the integrated circuit, most institutions jointly credit both Kilby and Noyce as the IC's inventors, though they worked separately. Fairchild made numerous other contributions to the semiconductor realm following its initial success. The decades following its founding were punctuated with developments both small and large:

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• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Eugene Kleiner

• Instance Of

  Q6881511

• Headquarters

  San Jose

• Inception Date

  1/1/1957