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126 relations: Alan L. Davis, Alloy-junction transistor, Andrew Grove, Andrew Witkin, Apollo Guidance Computer, Arthur Rock, Atari 2600, Australia, Automatic test equipment, Autonetics, Beckman Coulter, Bell Labs, Bob Widlar, Bucheon, Cebu City, Charge-coupled device, Charles E. Sporck, Chih-Tang Sah, Clipper architecture, Collage, Computer History Museum, Computer network, Corporate spin-off, Dawon Kahng, Dennis Murray, Diffused junction transistor, Diode–transistor logic, Don Hoefler, Don Valentine, Edwin Turney, EE Times, Electronic News, Eugene Kleiner, Fairchild Aircraft, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Fairchild Channel F, Fairchild F8, Federico Faggin, Field-effect tetrode, Field-effect transistor, Frank Wanlass, Germanium, Gil Amelio, Gordon Moore, Hector Levesque, IBM, Insulated-gate bipolar transistor, Integrated circuit, Intel, Intel 8008, ... Expand index (76 more) »
- American companies established in 1957
- Computer companies established in 1957
- Electronics companies established in 1957
Alan L. Davis
Alan "Al" Lynn Davis is an American computer scientist and researcher, a professor of computer science at the University of Utah, and served as the associate director of the University of Utah School of Computing.
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Alloy-junction transistor
The germanium alloy-junction transistor, or alloy transistor, was an early type of bipolar junction transistor, developed at General Electric and RCA in 1951 as an improvement over the earlier grown-junction transistor.
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Andrew Grove
Andrew Stephen Grove (born Gróf András István; 2 September 1936 – 21 March 2016) was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel Corporation. He escaped from the Hungarian People's Republic during the 1956 revolution at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education.
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Andrew Witkin
Andrew Paul Witkin (July 22, 1952 – September 12, 2010) was an American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics.
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Apollo Guidance Computer
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM).
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Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor.
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Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 is a discontinued home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Automatic test equipment
Automatic test equipment or automated test equipment (ATE) is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the device under test (DUT), equipment under test (EUT) or unit under test (UUT), using automation to quickly perform measurements and evaluate the test results.
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Autonetics
Autonetics was a division of North American Aviation that produced various avionics but is best known for their inertial navigation systems used in submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Fairchild Semiconductor and Autonetics are Defunct computer companies of the United States.
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Beckman Coulter
Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a Danaher Corporation company that develops, manufactures, and markets products relevant to biomedical testing. Fairchild Semiconductor and Beckman Coulter are Superfund sites in California.
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Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
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Bob Widlar
Robert John Widlar (pronounced wide-lar; November 30, 1937 – February 27, 1991) was an American electronics engineer and a designer of linear integrated circuits (ICs).
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Bucheon
Bucheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
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Cebu City
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.
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Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors.
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Charles E. Sporck
Charles E. Sporck (born November 15, 1927) is an American engineer and former company manager.
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Chih-Tang Sah
Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah (born in November 1932 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist.
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Clipper architecture
The Clipper architecture is a 32-bit RISC-like instruction set architecture designed by Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Collage
Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
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Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.
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Computer network
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.
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Corporate spin-off
A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst or hive-off, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business or creates a second incarnation, even if the first is still active.
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Dawon Kahng
Dawon Kahng (강대원; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics.
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Dennis Murray
Dennis Murray may refer to.
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Diffused junction transistor
A diffused junction transistor is a transistor formed by diffusing dopants into a semiconductor substrate.
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Diode–transistor logic
Diode–transistor logic (DTL) is a class of digital circuits that is the direct ancestor of transistor–transistor logic.
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Don Hoefler
Donald C. Hoefler (October 3, 1922 – April 15, 1986) was an American journalist, well known for using the term "Silicon Valley" for the first time in print.
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Don Valentine
Donald Thomas Valentine (June 26, 1932 – October 25, 2019) was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States.
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Edwin Turney
Edwin James Turney (March 26, 1929, Brooklyn, New York – October 15, 2008) is best known as one of the founders of Advanced Micro Devices serving as the Vice President of Sales and Administration from 1969 to 1974.
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EE Times
EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an electronics industry magazine published in the United States since 1972.
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Electronic News
Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry, from semiconductor equipment and materials to military/aerospace electronics to supercomputers.
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Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner (12 May 1923 – 20 November 2003) was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist.
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Fairchild Aircraft
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.
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Fairchild Camera and Instrument
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild.
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Fairchild Channel F
The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", is a video game console, the first to be based on a microprocessor and to use ROM cartridges (branded 'Videocarts') instead of having games built-in.
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Fairchild F8
The Fairchild F8 is an 8-bit microprocessor system from Fairchild Semiconductor, announced in 1974 and shipped in 1975.
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Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin (born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
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Field-effect tetrode
The tetrode field-effect transistor or field-effect tetrode is a solid-state semiconductor device, constructed by creating two field-effect channels back-to-back, with a junction between.
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Field-effect transistor
The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor.
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Frank Wanlass
Frank Marion Wanlass (May 17, 1933, in Thatcher, AZ – September 9, 2010, in Santa Clara, California) was an American electrical engineer.
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Germanium
Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32.
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Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive.
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Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.
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Hector Levesque
Hector Joseph Levesque (born 1951) is a Canadian academic and researcher in artificial intelligence.
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel are Superfund sites in California and technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Intel 8008
The Intel 8008 ("eight-thousand-eight" or "eighty-oh-eight") is an early 8-bit microprocessor capable of addressing 16 KB of memory, introduced in April 1972.
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Intergraph
Intergraph Corporation was an American software development and services company, which now forms part of Hexagon AB. Fairchild Semiconductor and Intergraph are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.
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Intersil
Intersil is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Milpitas, California. Fairchild Semiconductor and Intersil are Superfund sites in California.
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Jack Gifford
John "Jack" F. Gifford (January 11, 1941 – January 11, 2009) was an American engineer and businessman best known as a founder and former CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of Maxim Integrated Products, an analog and mixed signal semiconductor company, located in San Jose, California.
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Jack Kilby
Jack St.
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James M. Early
James M. Early (July 25, 1922 – January 12, 2004) was an American electrical engineer, best known for his work on transistors and charge-coupled device imagers.
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Jay Last
Jay Taylor Last (October 18, 1929 – November 11, 2021) was an American physicist, silicon pioneer, and member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley.
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Jean Hoerni
Jean Amédée Hoerni (September 26, 1924 – January 12, 1997) was a Swiss-born American engineer.
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Jerry Sanders (businessman)
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) is an American businessman and engineer who was a co-founder and long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), serving in the position from 1969 to 2002.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Julius Blank
Julius Blank (June 2, 1925 – September 17, 2011) was an American semiconductor pioneer.
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Lee Boysel
Lee Boysel (December 31, 1938 – April 25, 2021) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
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Leslie L. Vadász
Leslie L. Vadász (born Vadász László; born September 12, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-American engineer and manager, one of the founding members of Intel Corporation.
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Lester Hogan
Clarence Lester Hogan (February 8, 1920 – August 12, 2008) was an American physicist and a pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology.
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LGM-30 Minuteman
The LGM-30 Minuteman is an American land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
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Mohamed M. Atalla
Mohamed M. Atalla (محمد عطاالله; August 4, 1924 – December 30, 2009) was an Egyptian-American engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur.
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MOSFET
W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
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Motor controller
A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor.
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.
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Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
Mountain Top is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Fairchild Semiconductor and National Semiconductor are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies, Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States, Superfund sites in California and technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Noise (electronics)
In electronics, noise is an unwanted disturbance in an electrical signal.
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North American XB-70 Valkyrie
The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie is a retired prototype version of the planned nuclear-armed, deep-penetration supersonic strategic bomber for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command.
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Onsemi
ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Operational amplifier
An operational amplifier (often op amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input, a (usually) single-ended output, and an extremely high gain.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
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Penang
Penang (Pulau Pinang) is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca.
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Peter E. Hart
Peter E. Hart (born 1941) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
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Petroleum reservoir
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
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Philco
Philco (an acronym for Philadelphia Battery Company) is an American electronics manufacturer headquartered in Philadelphia. Fairchild Semiconductor and Philco are Defunct computer companies of the United States and Defunct computer hardware companies.
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Pierre Lamond
Pierre R Lamond (born September 12, 1930) is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who has specialized in semiconductors, systems and cleantech.
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Planar process
The planar process is a manufacturing process used in the semiconductor industry to build individual components of a transistor, and in turn, connect those transistors together.
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Plessey
The Plessey Company plc was a British electronics, defence and telecommunications company. Fairchild Semiconductor and Plessey are Defunct computer hardware companies.
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Raytheon
The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. Fairchild Semiconductor and Raytheon are companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Superfund sites in California.
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Reduced instruction set computer
In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.
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Resistor–transistor logic
Resistor–transistor logic (RTL), sometimes also known as transistor–resistor logic (TRL), is a class of digital circuits built using resistors as the input network and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) as switching devices.
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Richard F. Lyon
Richard "Dick" Francis Lyon (born 1952) is an American inventor, scientist, and engineer.
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Richard O. Duda
Richard O. Duda is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University renowned for his work on sound localization and pattern recognition.
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Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.
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Ronald J. Brachman
Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
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Samsung
Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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San Rafael, California
San Rafael (Spanish for "St. Raphael") is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.
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Schlumberger
Schlumberger NV, doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, is an American oilfield services company.
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Self-aligned gate
In semiconductor electronics fabrication technology, a self-aligned gate is a transistor manufacturing approach whereby the gate electrode of a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is used as a mask for the doping of the source and drain regions.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Sheldon Roberts
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Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later known as Shockley Transistor Corporation, was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley, and funded by Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1955. Fairchild Semiconductor and Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory are Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States and technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing signals, such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements.
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Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
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South Portland, Maine
South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-most populous city in the state, incorporated in 1898.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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State Historic Preservation Office
The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is a state governmental function created by the United States federal government in 1966 under Section 101 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).
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Stav Prodromou
Stavro Evangelo "Stav" Prodromou (Σταύρος Ευάγγελος Προδρομου) (born May 30, 1944) is a Palestinian Greek American businessman, and the founder and former chief executive officer of Poqet Computer Corporation.
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Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'', Mandarin), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China.
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Syosset, New York
Syosset is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Oyster Bay, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments are companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Traitorous eight
The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
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Transistor–transistor logic
Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.
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Victor Grinich
Victor Henry Grinich (November 26, 1924 – November 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Fairchild Semiconductor in Silicon Valley.
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Wafer (electronics)
In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.
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West Jordan, Utah
West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
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Wilfred Corrigan
Wilfred J. Corrigan is a British engineer and entrepreneur, known for founding and running LSI Logic Corp.
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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1973 oil crisis
In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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1973–1975 recession
The 1973–1975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall post–World War II economic expansion.
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2N696
The 2N696 and 2N697 were the first silicon transistors manufactured in Silicon Valley, in 1958, by Fairchild Semiconductor.
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See also
American companies established in 1957
- AAMCO Transmissions
- Adage, Inc.
- AlliedBarton
- Applied Magnetics Corporation
- Bayliner
- Beginner Books
- Boise Cascade
- Brown Bear Car Wash
- Cambria Productions
- Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv
- Columbia Helicopters
- Control Data Corporation
- Dick Clark Productions
- DuPont Central Research
- Enterprise Holdings
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Food Lion
- Frank's Nursery & Crafts
- Hanna-Barbera
- Hills (store)
- Hines (company)
- IBM Microelectronics
- JBG Smith
- Kaiser Broadcasting
- Klein Transportation
- MAI Systems
- MGIC Investment Corporation
- Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe
- McGraw-Edison
- Monro Muffler Brake
- O'Reilly Auto Parts
- Ohio State University Press
- Penzeys Spices
- Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
- Service Credit Union
- Seven Arts Productions
- Sir Pizza
- Stax Records
- The Armoloy Corporation
- The Honey Baked Ham Company
- Vanity (clothing)
- Wesleyan University Press
Computer companies established in 1957
- Adage, Inc.
- Applied Magnetics Corporation
- Casio
- Control Data Corporation
- Data Processing Iran Co.
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- IBM Microelectronics
- MAI Systems
Electronics companies established in 1957
- Acoustiguide
- Casio
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Hameg
- KLH (company)
- Pelco
- Rotel
- Watkins-Johnson Company
References
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