Traitorous Eight

The Traitorous Eight ( German: " The traitorous eight" ) are eight entrepreneurs who had left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. The name of the telltale Eight was invented by William B. Shockley, Director of the Shockley laboratorys. Others talk a little more neutral of the Fairchild Eight or Shockley Eight. For a time, they were also called the Fair Children. The eight are: Victor Grinich, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Eugene Kleiner, Julius Blank, Sheldon Roberts, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.

History

The contractor left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, because they were not satisfied with Shockley's personnel management. Specifically, he expected that research was carried out according to his ideas, and he expected his own favored results, rather than be guided by the research.

The eight employees turned to Arnold Orville Beckman, whose Beckman Instruments was the sole shareholder of the Shockley Semiconductor laboratorys then. They demanded the dismissal of Shockley. Beckman tried to find a new manager and ousted Shockley. After some time, but it was clear that no substitute could be found. So Shockley got back his powers. The eight left the laboratory and then signed a contract with the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation to form Fairchild Semiconductor.

Your business interests did not end with Fairchild. Seven of the eight founded new companies. These companies are sometimes referred to as a fair Children.

• Victor Grinich became a professor at Berkeley and Stanford.
• Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel.
• Eugene Kleiner is co-founder of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
• Sheldon Roberts, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last founded the predecessor of Teledyne.
• Julius Blank was co-founder of Xicor.