Fairchild Semiconductor

The Fairchild Semiconductor, based in San Jose, California, USA, is an American semiconductor manufacturer. The company's shares will be from 4 August 1999 under the symbol " FCS " traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

History

1957 decided eight engineers from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, William B. Shockley, a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California, to leave the facility and to start their own business, Fairchild Semiconductor. The group later became known as the Traitorous Eight ( German » The telltale Eight "). The eight men were Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Sheldon Roberts. For the financing of their project, they turned to Sherman Mills Fairchild of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. He financed the project with 1.5 million U.S. dollars and Fairchild Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Fairchild Camera. On October 1, 1957 Fairchild Semiconductor was founded.

1958 succeeded Robert Noyce to make the first monolithically fabricated integrated circuit; This development was patented in 1961. The invention was based mainly on developed by Fairchild planar, with the first plurality of transistors, diodes and resistors on a silicon substrate ( "chip" ) were placed.

Another milestone followed in 1965. The first operational amplifier made ​​entirely in an enclosure was produced.

In the following years, Fairchild dominated the market with the diode - transistor logic, the operational amplifier and the custom mainframe circuits. The competition was stronger, most notably Texas Instruments. Thus, the transistor-transistor logic was developed in the same time period from several companies.

1976 established the company Channel F, the world's first gaming console with ROM chips. 26 games were developed to do so. Also, there was in contrast to the very first console Magnavox Odyssey colors instead of plastic films. However, it was powerless against the Atari 2600.

1979 Fairchild was bought by Schlumberger, which further sold the company in 1987 at National Semiconductor, Fairchild has spun off into an independent company in 1997.

Early 1980s developed Fairchild own microprocessor architecture, the Clipper processor, which was sold in 1987 after the takeover by National Semiconductor Intergraph.

After 1997, Fairchild was established as an independent company, was in 1999 the re- IPO under the symbol FCS. Also in 1997, announced the acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor Division of the U.S. defense company Raytheon.

In 2005 Mark S. Thompson joined the Management Board of the company and has since become CEO.

Another significant employee

Types of business entity International Securities Identification Number Integrated device manufacturer William Shockley Sherman Fairchild Diode–transistor logic Fairchild Channel F Clipper architecture Chief Executive Officer Jerry Sanders (businessman) Bob Widlar
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