VideoThe new American Experience documentary 'Silicon Valley' looks at the 'Traitorous Eight,' who left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor and give birth to today's Silicon Valley.

July 1958 Fairchild Semiconductor fulfills its IBM contract order for 100 silicon transistors, priced at $150 each, 30 times the going rate for the less-sturdy standard germanium transistor.

Fairchild Semiconductor, a pivotal company in the foundation of Silicon Valley, announced plans Monday that could result in more than 1,000 jobs being cut, but said that its Bay Area workforce ...

Fairchild Semiconductor's eight founders imbued the company with a corporate culture that today might be called "quintessential Silicon Valley": open communications, laissez-faire management ...

The Fairchild/Shockley 8, who left the lab of Nobel Prize winner William Shockley to form Silicon Valley’s first start-up, Fairchild Semiconductor.

Fairchild Semiconductor, a major force in giving Silicon Valley its name, has endured an exile of sorts in Maine since 1997. Now the chip maker has returned to its home turf, with a product line ...

They weren't out to make history, the eight young engineers who met secretly with investor Arthur Rock 50 years ago to form Silicon Valley's ancestral chip company, Fairchild Semiconductor. The ...

SAN JOSE — Fairchild Semiconductor, which pioneered the integrated circuit that gave birth to Silicon Valley, said Wednesday it has agreed to be acquired by Phoenix-based ON Semiconductor.

Fairchild Semiconductor put the silicon in Silicon Valley. But by the 21st century, it needed to reimagine itself. "Wonder Wanders" and "Analogous Explorations" made the difference.

Companies like Intel were born from the semiconductor revolution. But how did silicon — and the transistor — end up in California?