Thus Fairchild Semiconductor was born -- a company dedicated to building transistors the way they wanted to, not the way Shockley decreed.

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.

It carved out three units of National Semiconductor and put them into Fairchild Semiconductor ... Capital and Schorr’s Niobrara Capital. Apollo Global Management has backed other chip fabs.

Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg on Sunday reported that Apollo reached out to the beleaguered semiconductor giant about a potential equity-like investment in recent days and said Intel ...

Neubiberg, Germany – December 28, 2009 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Fairchild Semiconductor. Infineon ...

PHOENIX-- November 18, 2015 -- ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ON) (“ON Semiconductor”) and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (Nasdaq: FCS) (“Fairchild”) today announced that they have ...

Apollo did not respond to a CRN request for further information by press time. Intel already manufactures chips in Ireland: Semiconductor production began in September at the company’s Fab 34 ...