Present day Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is a spin-off company resulting from reconstitution of assets in National Semiconductor. It inherits the Fairchild name of the original Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, which had been the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry since 1957. The original Fairchild had been acquired by Schlumberger which then sold it to National Semiconductor.
The company has locations in San Jose...
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Present day Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is a spin-off company resulting from reconstitution of assets in National Semiconductor. It inherits the Fairchild name of the original Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, which had been the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry since 1957. The original Fairchild had been acquired by Schlumberger which then sold it to National Semiconductor.
The company has locations in San Jose, California; West Jordan, Utah; Mountaintop, Pennsylvania; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines; among others.
Its corporate headquarters is located in South Portland, Maine.
In 1956 William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California; his plan was to develop a new type of "4-layer diode" that would work faster and have more uses than current transistors. At first he attempted to hire some of his former colleagues from Bell Labs,...
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