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	Fairchild Semiconductor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit (released shortly before one from Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s.
		During the 1960s, Fairchild dominated the analog integrated circuit market, introducing the first IC operational amplifiers, or "op amps", Bob Widlar's µA702 (in 1964) and µA709.
		Fairchild's current product line is aimed at the power and discrete component market, claiming the ability to supply every single semiconductor component required for a typical switched-mode power supply from controller chip to switching MOSFET to rectifier diodes to optocouplers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor (1191 words)

	Sherman M. Fairchild
		Fairchild was not only an indefatigable investor in those fields, but his inquiring mind also led to patents on such disparate products as engraving mechanisms and carriers for fruit picking (the latter his last patent at age 73).
		Fairchild's curiosity and inventive mind were obvious early and they were encouraged by his father, who was a remarkable man himself.
		Fairchild was honored by his scientific and technological colleagues with fellowships in the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and in the Royal Aeronautical Society.
	library.caltech.edu /sherman/fairchild.htm (548 words)

	FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (SOUTH SAN JOSE PLANT)
		In 1981, Fairchild discovered that an underground organic solvent waste tank had failed, resulting in soil and on- and off-site groundwater contamination by a mixture of solvents.
		Fairchild has been investigating and cleaning up soil and groundwater pollution at the facility since contamination was first detected in 1981.
		Initial Actions: Fairchild implemented several initial cleanup actions that have decreased the extent and magnitude of groundwater contamination in the area.
	yosemite.epa.gov /r9/sfund/overview.nsf/ef81e03b0f6bcdb28825650f005dc4c1/ced44066ac1b71af8825660b007ee6a9?OpenDocument (691 words)

	Traitorous Eight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Traitorous Eight at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1959.
		The eight men then resigned and signed a research contract with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation to form Fairchild Semiconductor.
		Like many other Fairchild employees, seven of the eight went on to found various spinoff companies (Victor Grinich became a professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traitorous_Eight (365 words)

	S.M. Fairchild Page 2
		The between-the-lens shutter exposed the film frame all at once as the camera mounted in the airplane moved through the air, thus eliminating the image distortion which had previously prevented accurate aerial mapping.
		One of the most interesting aspects of Sherman Fairchild's career of accomplishment is that there was little in his background to account for his fascination with technology.
		The wide diversity of Fairchild's interests is reflected by the number of professional societies of which he was a member.
	www.bcwarbirds.com /sm_fairchild_page_2.htm (1370 words)

	The Fairchild Lunar Mapping Camera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This stellar photography was used in post flight data acquisition for camera attitude determination, as the optical axis of both camera’s and their relative orientation to one another are known and calibrated.
		The Lunar Mapping Camera Subsystem consists of interlock metric and stellar cameras, whose optical axes and orientation relative to one another are fixed and measured, along with a laser altimeter.
		When in camera imaging mode, the laser altimeter is synchronised with the image exposure time, which varies from 20 to 28 seconds, which corresponds to 30 to 43 km travel on the lunar surface between exposures.
	history.nasa.gov /afj/simbaycam/fairchild-lunar-mapping-camera.htm (1496 words)

	Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Story: Featured HBS Arthur Rock - HBS Working Knowledge
		So Fairchild Camera and Instrument lent $1.5 million to this company, in return for which they got an option to buy all of the stock for $3 million.
		Sherman Fairchild had died in the meantime, and the company was being run out of Syosset, Long Island, where Fairchild Camera and Instrument had its headquarters.
		As I said earlier, the Fairchild group became less and less happy at Fairchild Semiconductor after Sherman Fairchild died and John Carter became CEO at Fairchild Camera.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /archive/1821.html (3903 words)

	Fairchild Channel F
		Started in 1957 by Sherman Mills Fairchild under the umbrella of his Fairchild Semiconductor in itself was well known as one of the pioneers in semiconductor research (Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, co-founders of Intel got their start there).
		Fairchild responded in kind by changing the name of their console to the Fairchild Channel F. However, the blocky graphics were starting to show their age already (if you can believe that) when compared against the 2600's higher resolution blocky graphics.
		By 1978, Fairchild had only released 21 cartridges for the Channel F, and the consoled that had changed home gaming consoles for ever was dead after only a year and 4 months on the market.
	www.classicgaming.com /gamingmuseum/channelf.html (1244 words)

	Richard Hodgson
		We at Fairchild were looking for an opportunity and recognized the talent that was there - just if you looked at the pedigrees, at least the top four of five of them from a technical point of view.
		And Tom Bay, who was the only Fairchild camera employee that I had recommended to the group as the marketing manager, came out here, he was an MIT graduate, very smart, and really set the style, right or wrong, for marketing of the semiconductor industry.
		Instrumentation is getting better and you learn something all in all, but with your background, you must see the same thing.
	silicongenesis.stanford.edu /transcripts/hodgson.htm (4796 words)

	NPL Site Narrative for Fairchild Semiconductor Corp (Mt View), NPL, Superfund, US EPA
		Fairchild has installed two wells to pump and treat the contaminated ground water plume.
		Fairchild now has 25 wells in operation that pump and treat contaminated ground water; has installed three underground slurry walls to control migration of contaminated ground water.
		Fairchild failed to conclude a settlement (Consent Decree) with EPA.
	www.epa.gov /superfund/sites/npl/nar963.htm (705 words)

	TIME.com: Shocked Circuits -- Nov. 25, 1966 -- Page 1
		In bullish 1965, the No. 1 glamour stock was Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which soared from a low of 27 ¼ to a high of 165 ¼, the biggest percentage gain of the year.
		Fairchild itself dropped 191 points by the closing; Texas Instruments was down 151, Motorola 101.
		Next day, although Texas Instruments rallied, Fairchild fell to 1021, a two-day loss of 231, and Motorola was down to 981, a loss of 17.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,843126,00.html (570 words)

	Fairchild Semiconductor Lives Up To Its Name - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Formed as a unit of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Fairchild Semiconductor was born of a revolt.
		Among the so-called "Fairchild eight" (Shockley called them the "traitorous eight") were such industry giants as Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, who in 1969 went on to start Intelintc (nasdaq: intc - news - people).
		Fairchild itself remained a publicly traded company until 1979, when oil giant Schlumberger slb (nyse: slb - news - people)acquired it.
	www.forbes.com /2000/09/07/feat2.html (877 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - The Museum: Channel F
		The Fairchild VES was designed at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, most known for their subsidiary Fairchild Semiconductor, whose chips the console was based around.
		Fairchild's new console featured plug-in cartridges that contained ROM chips with actual microprocessor code, rather than dedicated circuits like those used in the plug-in cards of the original Odyssey game system.
		Fairchild was no exception, and they discontinued the Channel F just after the 1977 Christmas season.
	www.classicgaming.com /museum/channelf (1502 words)

	Locus Technologies cleans up during first year of business -- The Business Journal of San Jose -- 1998-04-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Fairchild paradox -- that a property can be clean enough for a supermarket yet not clean enough to leave the Superfund list -- dramatically highlights what critics describe as the unrealistically strict, costly and confusing regulations that govern EPA's Superfund program.
		Fairchild's cleanup order, issued in 1989 by the regional water board and approved by EPA, says that solvents in the groundwater must be cleaned around the site to an almost pristine level -- a standard the agency's own regulators today concede may be impossible to meet.
		Officials for Schlumberger Ltd., the French oil equipment company that bought Fairchild in 1979 in what proved to be a disastrous business move, say that after spending $40 million, they are still spending $483,000 a year to squeeze the final parts per billion from groundwater no one drinks.
	www.locustec.com /whatsnew/SanJoseMercuryNews.html (1835 words)

	Arthur Rock
		When through a third person, we met Sherman Fairchild and Sherman Fairchild was the largest owner of IBM stock because his father was partners with Tom Watson, Sr.
		So he had plenty of money and he was an inventor and he had invented the aerial camera and, and the airplane to carry the camera.
		And so they, he set up two separate companies, Fairchild Airplane and Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, and he decided that he would have Fairchild Camera and Instrument put up the million and a half dollars that we felt we needed in return for which they got an option to buy all of our stock.
	silicongenesis.stanford.edu /transcripts/rock.htm (3177 words)

	NPL Site Narrative for Fairchild Semiconductor Corp (S San Jose, NPL, Superfund, US EPA
		This site was proposed under the name "Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. (South San Jose Plant)." The company took the new name in 1986.
		Fairchild has started an investigation to determine the extent of the problem at the site and is currently undertaking interim cleanup measures consisting of excavation of contaminated soils, the pumping and treatment of contaminated ground water, and construction of a slurry wall to reduce the spread of contamination from the site.
		Status (January 1986): Fairchild has removed contaminated soil from the facility, has installed a system to pump and treat contaminated ground water, and is constructing the slurry wall.
	www.epa.gov /superfund/sites/npl/nar1705.htm (537 words)

	An internal dispute at Shockley Labs arose over the choice between the two semiconducting materials silicon and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fairchild became the first company to successfully mass manufacture a micro-sized device capable of integrating large numbers of electrical "on-off" switching functions, stored in simple memory cells, all etched onto a silicon chip.
		This company was the first one to manufacture exclusively in silicon and rapidly developed into one of the largest firms in the California electronics industry.
		Shockley Transistor Corporation never recovered from the blow of the Fairchild spin-off and was sold to Clevite in 1960, to ITT in 1965, then closed for good in 1968.
	cispom.boisestate.edu /cis121emaxson/shockDemize.htm (213 words)

	LCoT Retro: Fairchild/Zircon
		Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the first companies to enter the gaming industry.
		Fairchild thought the names of the two console were too similar, so the VES became the Channel F. Fairchild tried to compete with the VCS by working on the Channel F System II.
		Fairchild Semiconductor-This is the official page of the Fairchild Semiconductor Company which has nothing to do with gaming.
	www.linkcableoftime.com /consolemakers/fairchild.htm (537 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Gordon E. Moore - Part 1 -- The Intel co-founder and chairman ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The investment bankers that we were dealing with, one of whom was named Arthur Rock, a Harvard business school graduate at the time and a senior partner, went and contacted all the companies we identified, and they all turned it down without even talking to the group.
		Then they caught up with Sherman Fairchild, who was the founder of Fairchild Camera and Instrument and also of Fairchild Aircraft, and he liked technology.
		Robert Noyce [a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and later of Intel] was the logical internal candidate, but he wasn't too enthused about the way that was going.
	www.sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=000154A8-B902-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21&pageNumber=2&catID=4 (752 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Fairchild Toxic Comtamination
		A 15-year-old gag order on the once-infamous Fairchild well-water contamination case may be hindering conservationists' efforts to call attention to a new toxic threat.
		By the time the study emerged in 1985, the Fairchild plant had been closed two years and a class action lawsuit filed against Fairchild by 271 residents of the Los Paseos neighborhood was under way.
		The Fairchild case was the canary in the coal mine to both the computer industry and the residents of Silicon Valley, a signal to both groups that there were potential dangers in what experts had called a "clean industry."
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.11.97/toxic-9737.html (1041 words)

	Wired 10.01: Moore's Quantum Leap
		In the midst of this antediluvian world, the young director of R&D for a subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Gordon E. Moore, contributed an article to an industry journal, exploding a mind-bending prophecy.
		Gordon Moore's colleague at Fairchild, salesman Jerry Sanders (now the chair of AMD), knew that among all companies in the world, only his possessed a chip that could do the job: the 1211 transistor.
		At the time, he was selling the device to the military in small numbers for $150 apiece; since each one cost $100 to build, this brought a $50 gross margin.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.01/gilder.html (1960 words)

	The Chip Collection - STATE OF THE ART - Smithsonian Institution
		For all the manufacturing benefits brought about by the mesa process, it had two major drawbacks: the mesa was susceptible to both physical harm and contamination, and the process didn't lend itself to the making of resistors.
		Instead of mounting the mesa, or base, on top of a foundation of silicon, he diffused it into the foundation, which served as the collector.
		He diffused a thin layer of aluminum into these areas, thereby creating "wires" that hooked the device up to the outside (this was the idea of his colleague and Fairchild co-founder, Robert Noyce).
	smithsonianchips.si.edu /augarten/p8.htm (520 words)

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		Fairchild Camera and Instrument bought out Fairchild Semiconductor, giving Robert Noyce, Jean Hoerni and six other founders $250,000 in company stock.
		Noyce, General Manager of Fairchild, and Gordon Moore, a mild-mannered physicist who was one of Fairchild's founders also resigned to establish Intel (acronym for integrated circuits} in 1968.
		By the end of 1970, Intel had created the 1K RAM and now 1,024 bits of information could be held on a single chip.
	ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net /reiman/11_1997.html (466 words)

	Environmental Pollution in California- Site: Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (South San Jose Plant)
		A nationally-recognized personal injury law firm, Weitz and Luxenberg is committed to helping clients win cases, get the compensation to which they’re entitled and get on with their lives.
		The US EPA has designated Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. (South San Jose Plant) in California as a Superfund site because of its amounts of environmental toxins and threat to the natural world.
		By choosing Weitz and Luxenberg, you will get the legal experience of skilled Toxic Tort attorneys who will help fight back against polluters and win you and your family the financial compensation and environmental remediation to which you are entitled.
	www.weitzlux.com /environmentallawsuit/california/fairchildsemicondu_145457.html (1115 words)

	NMAH \| Navigation \| Bubble Sextant
		This example (an A-10-A) was made in 1944 by the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, as the firm was then known.
		The Air Force was still using instruments of this sort in the late 1950s.
		Soon after his death in an air accident in 1944, Sherman Fairchild established the Thurlow Award for contributions to the science of navigation.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/navigation/object.cfm?recordnumber=451522 (197 words)

	Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Located at 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Fairchild complex includes an eight-storey structure which houses core space of the Research Laboratory of Electronics(MIT building 36), an adjoining six-storey structure (MIT building 38) housing RLE laboratories, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories.
		At the time of its completion in 1973, the Fairchild Complex was the single largest building project at MIT since the Cambridge campus was constructed in 1916.
		The complex is named in memory of Sherman M. Fairchild, the late founder and chairman of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Fairchild Semiconductor, Fairchild Industries, and the Fairchild Foundation.
	www.rle.mit.edu /about/about_history_facilities.html (339 words)

	History of Computing Industrial Era 1958 - 1964
		Though which team invented the IC is controversial it is generally accepted that both teams at Fairchild and Texas Instruments developed the IC independently.
		Both Texas Instruments (February) and Fairchild Semiconductor corporation (July) file for a patent for the process to produce transistors on a flat layer.
		Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. invented the resistor-transistor logic (RTL) product, a set/reset flip-flop and the first integrated circuit available as a monolithic chip.
	www.thocp.net /timeline/1958.htm (2460 words)

	A history of innovation - 1957 - Fairchild Semiconductor
		Gordon E. Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert N. Noyce, Victor H. Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean A. Hoerni and Jay T. Last -- the “Traitorous Eight” from Shockley Semiconductor -- use $3500 of their own money to develop a method of mass-producing silicon transistors using a double diffusion technique and a chemical-etching system.
		Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation invests $1.5 million in return for an option to buy the company within eight years.
		On October 1, 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor is born.
	www.fairchildsemi.com /company/history_1957.html (228 words)

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