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.

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

Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of Jerry Lawson, the founder of VideoSoft and one of the engineers who helped design the Fairchild Channel F system (aka Fun system) which was the first ...

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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 ...