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	Traitorous Eight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Traitorous Eight at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1959.
		The Traitorous Eight are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
		The eight employees went to Arnold Beckman and asked him to replace Shockley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traitorous_Eight (357 words)

	Traitorous Eight: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Victor grinich (november 24, 1924 - november 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the traitorous eight that...
		Jean hoerni (1924- january 12, 1997) was a silicon transistor pioneer and a member of the traitorous eight....
		Sheldon roberts is a semiconductor pioneer, and member of the traitorous eight that founded silicon valley....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/traitorous_eight.htm (306 words)

	Jay Last: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jay Last is a silicon pioneer and a member of the Traitorous Eight (Traitorous Eight: the traitorous eight are eight men who left shockley semiconductor laboratory to form...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]), and left the company along with the rest of the Traitorous Eight (Traitorous Eight: the traitorous eight are eight men who left shockley semiconductor laboratory to form...
		He later cofounded Amelco with Traitorous Eight (Traitorous Eight: the traitorous eight are eight men who left shockley semiconductor laboratory to form...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/jay_last (426 words)

	Sheldon Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sheldon Roberts (born 1926) is a semiconductor pioneer, and member of the Traitorous Eight who founded Silicon Valley.
		He joined the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California, but left the company along with other members of the Traitorous Eight to form the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.
		He later founded Amelco (known now as Teledyne) with Traitorous Eight alumni Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheldon_Roberts (142 words)

	Jay Last - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in 1929 in Butler, Pennsylvnaia.
		He worked at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, and left the company along with the rest of the Traitorous Eight to form the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.
		He later cofounded Amelco with Traitorous Eight alumni Jean Hoerni and Sheldon Roberts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_Last (173 words)

	Victor Grinich - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Victor Grinich (November 24, 1924 - November 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley.
		Grinich received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1950, and a Ph.D. in 1953 from Stanford University.
		He worked at the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, and then left with other disgruntled members of the Traitorous Eight to create the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Victor_Grinich (210 words)

	Arthur Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel PrizeÐwinning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto.
		Armed with the technical expertise to commercialize the semiconductor, the foresight to know that their product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started.
		The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York, Arthur Rock (MBA '51).
	www.alumni.hbs.edu /bulletin/1997/december/rock.html (447 words)

	CNN - 1958: The birth of integrated circuits - May 19, 1999
		They didn't see that they were on the verge of spawning a new industry, of planting the seed that would grow into Silicon Valley.
		They had come to the San Francisco Bay area in 1956 to work for William Shockley, who had won the Nobel Prize that year with John Bordeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor at Bell Laboratories.
		But the eight, disagreeing with Shockley over technology and management issues, left his start-up, Shockley Semiconductor, en masse in late 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9905/19/1958.idg (739 words)

	Mountain View Voice: Silicon chip sprouted at this vegetable market (February 24, 2006)
		Unfortunately, he was less skilled as a manager than as a scientist, causing eight of his researchers to resign and help found Fairchild Semiconductor.
		Shockley called this bunch the "Traitorous Eight," but they were known in other circles as the "Fairchild Eight." (One of them, Jay Last, joins three other former Shockley researchers at the Computer History Museum this Monday).
		One of the reasons for them leaving was that Shockley wanted to focus on the four-layer diode, whereas the others wanted to press forward with silicon technology.
	www.mv-voice.com /story.php?story_id=1062 (668 words)

	Y Combinator: They Would be Gods
		Kleiner remembers, 40 years later, that it was his wife who kept him going during those times (she also sang madrigals with Noyce at parties and social events).
		It was clear that these [Fairchild management] guys weren't going to share the wealth of what we were building." So, when Lamond asked Smullen to come to National Semiconductor and run the digital circuit group, he left, spending four years at National, where there was a distribution of shares.
		Corrigan worked for Motorola for eight years, becoming a senior manager of Motorola's semiconductor operation, and then Hogan selected Corrigan to go to California, where he and the other "heroes," as they were called, would attempt to save Fairchild Semiconductor.
	ycombinator.com /gods.html (7607 words)

	Himesh's Blog: Good Decisions - Bad Decisions
		All eight were stars in their fields: Among them were an industrial engineer with a head for numbers named Eugene Kleiner; a dapper physicist from Iowa named Robert Noyce; and a folksy Californian named Gordon Moore, who had earned doctorates in physics and chemistry.
		The best way for the eight to stay together, Rock suggested, was for them to start their own company to develop rudimentary semiconductor components rather than to go to work in the bowels of a larger corporation.
		Each of the eight would receive 10% of a new company whose sole asset was their combined expertise.
	spaces.msn.com /shahhimesh/Blog/cns!1pnnj9VpChgJVahxxq5Ai6Yg!105.entry (6651 words)

	Shockley Semiconductor
		Shockley man aged to hire eight of the best scientists from the East Coast, who were attracted by his scientific reputation.
		When Shockley refused the suggestions of his eight engineers who wanted to concentrate on silicon transistors, while their boss pursued research on four-layer diodes, they decided to quit and start their own firm in 1957.
		Within several months Shockley had to shut down his firm, since he had lost his engineers, whom he called traitors and they are now known as "the Traitorous Eight".
	www.silicon-valley-story.de /sv/shockley.html (825 words)

	APPRECIATION / Fairchild founder, engineer to the end / Silicon Valley legend Kleiner dies at 80
		His father, who escaped the clutches of Nazi occupation as a teenager and landed in Palo Alto years later as one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley, died of heart failure on Thursday at his home in Los Altos Hills.
		Kleiner is best known as one of the "traitorous eight," who left Shockley Laboratories in Palo Alto to start a small chip firm called Fairchild Semiconductor.
		But a year later, those same recruits -- including Noyce and Moore -- became known as the "traitorous eight" -- or Fairchild Eight, depending on one's perspective -- after they broke away from Shockley and founded Fairchild Semiconductor.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/26/BUGQE3AE0F1.DTL&type=printable (904 words)

	IEEEVM: Gordon E. Moore
		A successful engineer, entrepreneur, and manager, Moore is best known for three things: membership in the “Traitorous Eight”; cofounding Intel, Corporation; and being the prognosticator of “Moore’s Law,” which has been an inspiration for the semi-conductor industry for over 40 years.
		Moore and a group of seven others, who would become known as the “Traitorous Eight” or “the Fairchild Eight,” decided enough was enough and left Shockley to launch their own company.
		The IC was the brainchild of another of the Traitorous Eight, Robert Noyce (although Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments also developed an IC at virtually the same time as Noyce).
	www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?id=1234771&lid=1 (772 words)

	The Traitorous Eight Traitorously Leave Shockley Semiconductor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In May of 1957, just over a year after the company was founded, eight employees went to Arnold Beckman and explained that they simply couldn't work with Shockley as their manager anymore.
		The rift seemed too large to overcome, and in September the "traitorous eight," as they became known, resigned.
		The eight men were Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts.
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/eight (303 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The truth about Kerry
		Yet his name today is synonymous with treason because of his despicable, traitorous actions after those heroics.
		Somehow this nation managed to survive eight years with a draft dodger serving as commander in chief.
		Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37310 (778 words)

	Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Eugene Kleiner '48, a Polytechnic advisory trustee and a consulting partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, is one of the famous "Fairchild Eight," who have been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a special stamp commemorating the creation of the integrated computer chip.
		Four of the eight men instrumental in founding Fairchild Semiconductor in Palo Alto, Calif., including one who established the South Portland plant, plan to attend the unveiling.
		This group, well-known in the industry as the "traitorous eight," defected from Shockley Labs in 1957 and set out to develop products for the Department of Defense.
	www.poly.edu /polypress/stamp2.cfm (676 words)

	About My Companies
		This had proven to be a decisive example to several key personnel of Shockley's increasing paranoia, and a group of eight engineers decided they had had enough.
		The group, later known widely as the Traitorous Eight, decided they had reason enough to resign, and all did so.
		The eight men were Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts.
	www.tr1.de /companies.htm (2505 words)

	Northwest Florida Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The course concentrates on Russia and India in the 19th century for political and commercial influence in Central Asia, where Afghanistan was a bone of contention between the two countries.
		Suffice it to say that his ordering of $2 million missiles to knock out $10 tents was the height of arrogance, stupidity and cowardice.
		Because of his scandalous, corrupt, incompetent, traitorous eight years, the chickens are coming home to roost.
	www.nwfdailynews.com /archive/opinion/011027edit2.html (712 words)

	Hewlett-Packard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their company's name, Hewlett-Packard, was derived from their last names and had Bill not won the coin toss, the company today could have been known as Packard-Hewlett.
		One of the company's earliest customers was Walt Disney Productions, who bought eight Model 200B oscillators (at $71.50 each) for use in testing the Fantasound stereophonic sound system for the movie Fantasia.
		HP is recognized as the symbolic founder of Silicon Valley, although it did not actively investigate semiconductor devices until a few years after the "Traitorous Eight" had abandoned William Shockley to create Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hewlett-Packard (1829 words)

	Journal of Theoretics - Nonprofit peer-reviewed Journal of scientifically credible theories from all disciplines. ...
		Months before the integrated circuit, he had led a mutiny of young scientists at Shockley Transistor against their Nobel laureate boss and company founder, William Shockley.
		This group, the "Traitorous Eight," managed to find venture-capital investment (thereby helping to found that industry) and started Fairchild Semiconductor.
		He was joined by another of the Traitorous Eight, Gordon Moore, and the two founded Intel Corp., today one of the world's most valuable and influential companies.
	www.journaloftheoretics.com /Links/Misc/wsj-siepmann.htm (992 words)

	Introduction
		Eight employees of Shockley Semiconductor, he labeled the "Traitorous Eight", left Shockley.
		They joined with Sheridan Fairchild's company, Fairchild Camera and Instruments, to create a subsidiary, Fairchild Semiconductor, to pursue new technology directions.
		The eight employees were: Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts.
	www.antiquetech.com /companies/comp_intro.htm (389 words)

	Salon \| 21st (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1956, eight engineers abandoned a fledgling transistor company run by Nobel Prize winner William Shockley and founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Company.
		Some of those same engineers then repeated the process, striking out on their own in ensuing years and creating such titans of Silicon Valley as the microprocessor giant Intel and the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
		Silicon Valley folklore refers to the Fairchild engineers as the "traitorous eight." But future generations have deemed their example to be anything but evil.
	archive.salon.com /april97/21st/saxenian970417.html (839 words)

	eBlue, Sacra Blue News-Magazine Online, Transitions
		Victor Grinich, one of the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor and founded Fairchild Semiconduictor in 1957, died in Mountain View in November.
		Grinich was born Victor Grgurinovich to Croatian immigrant parents, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Washington and Stanford.
		While Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments was creating the first integrated circuit, made of germanium, one of the eight, Jean Hoerni, was perfecting the planar process, which allowed Fairchild to make integrated circuits from silicon, and give birth to a new industry.
	www.sacpcug.org /archives/0012/niobits.html (584 words)

	Venture Chronicles: November 24, 2003 - November 30, 2003
		After leaving Austria during WWII, Kleiner settled in the Valley and was recruited by William Shockley, along with seven other scientists to build transistors, which Shockley is credited with inventing.
		Kleiner and the seven rebelled and became known as the Traitorous Eight.
		The Eight used their own money to develop a new process for building multiple transistors on a single wafer.
	sapventures.typepad.com /main/2003/week48 (675 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 (188 words)

	Postcards from the Digital Age - Eugene Kleiner and the Making of Silicon Valley
		In 1956 Kleiner and seven other engineers, whom Shockley would dub "The Traitorous Eight," left Shockley to start their own company.
		The eight could only scrape together some $3500 in capital, so money became their most immediate problem.
		Kleiner wrote a now legendary letter to his father's stockbroker, the only person he knew who might be helpful.
	www.bockinfo.com /031208postcard.htm (874 words)

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