In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor became the third company in Silicon Valley. Of course it wasn't called Silicon Valley then, since the whole silicon industry was just starting to evolve.

Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high-performance ... Most products currently made at the Mountaintop site will be transferred to other internal sites. A small office will be ...

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore had done well for themselves at Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce had become general manager, and Moore was head of Research and Development. But the company was still ...

In the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the ...