Fairchild Semiconductor

Gene Kleiner was one of the truly wise men of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, as well as Kleiner Perkins, an incredibly successful venture capital firm. What Kleiner s First Law teaches is that biotech companies should raise capital whenever they can, assuming the deals do not have fatal flaws (as will be discussed below). I once... 

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation Superfund site, California CVOCs, BTEX 4,442,609 105.87 277.66... 

Dennis W. Hess is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California-Berkeley. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Albright College and the M.S. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Lehigh University. From 1973 to 1977, he performed basic and applied research in microelectronic-device fabrication at Fairchild Semiconductor. Since 1977, he has been on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as assistant dean of the College of Chemistry from 1982 to 1987 and as acting vice chairman of the Department of Chemical En-... 

H. SELLO (Fairchild Semiconductor) You state that p-type silicon and germanium etch at the same rate electro-lytically. In light of the different mechanisms, how do you account for this ... 

Report to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, by Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Technical Report no 298. 

A comment28 made by Dr. Gordon Moore in 1965, when he was a director of research and development at Fairchild Semiconductor, has evolved into the famous Moore s law. He observed at the time that the development of the IC was happening at a pace that provided twice as many transistors on an IC chip each successive year. He later adjusted the pace to about 60%, which predicts a doubling of the transistors on an IC about every year and a half. 

In 1958, Jack Kilby" at Texas Instruments and, in 1959, Robert Noyce" at Fairchild Semiconductor independently invented the integrated circuit as a solution to the problem of building electronic circuits with large numbers of components. Instead of making transistors one by one, several transistors could be made with this technique at the same time, on the same piece of semiconductor. In addition to transistors, other electric components such as resistors, capacitors, and diodes could be made by the same process with the same set of materials. ... 

Mr. Noyce established both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The location came to be called "Silicon Valley" because of all the high-tech businesses that concentrated there. Mr. Noyce was known as the "mayor" of Silicon Valley. 

Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was awarded a U.S. patent in 1961 for a more complex integrated circuit termed the unitary drcuit. 

Current flowing in the motor can be monitored using a number of different ICs or power FETs available from any number of suppliers. These devices include current shunt ICs (Maxim, Texas Instruments Zetex), sense FETs (Fairchild Semiconductor), HEX sense power FETs (International Rectifier), and fault-protected switches (fancy MOSFETs, Micrel) to name but a few. Current-shunt ICs are common because they find use in dc-to-dc converters, consequently, a large number of different manufacturers make them in many different forms and flavors (see Fig. 32.17). 

In 1965, Gordon Moore, then director of engineering at Fairchild Semiconductor and later cofounder of Intel, observed that the power of the computer chip was doubling every eighteen months. Industry experts welcomed the rapid advances but thought the pace was unsustainable however, that doubling of capability continues and has been dubbed Moore s law. 

Reid, T. R. The Chip How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution. Rev. ed. New York Simon Schuster, 2001. The very readable story about Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and RobertNoyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and later Intel, who independently came up with different approaches to the invention of the microchip. 

Ceramic dual inline package (CERDIP). The DIP package was developed by Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments followed with a metal topped ceramic package that resolved problems with the early ceramic packaged parts. 

Electronic Express website (Div. of R.S.R. Electronics, Inc. http //www.elexp.com/t-Solder.htm Fairchild Semiconductor website on Lead-Free Implementation http //www.fairchildsemi.com/products/... 

A group of Shockley s co-workers left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1958 to set up Fairchild Semiconductors, because Shockley would not allow work to continue on the silicon transistor. The group included Robert Noyce (1927-1990) and Gordon Moore (b.l929). 

An extremely important development was the independent discoveries of the solid state integrated circuit concept in 1958 by J. Kilby of Texas Instruments Corp. and R. Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. This made it possible to produce extremely small and powerful digital data processing units that are the centerpiece of a computer (the processor). For this extremely important development, they shared the prestigious C. D. Draper prize awarded by the National Academy of Engineering. In 2001, Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize, but this was not shared with Noyce since the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthiunously. 

This process has been used in early prototyping of MEMS mirror arrays for applications in adaptive optics, optical switching, and deformable grating arrays [16], [17]. The SUMMiT IV process was transferred from Sandia National Laboratories to Fairchild Semiconductor International but has since been discontinued. Fairchild was the only company that offered this technology for foundry manufacturing. 

Mikael Ostling is a Full Professor in Solid State Electronics, the co-founder of the company TranSiC fully acquired by Fairchild Semiconductor in 2011, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Currently he heads the Department of Integrated Devices and Circuits at the School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Miniaturization of electronic circuits took another major step forward with Jack Kilby s invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments and through the contributions of Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor (later founders of Intel Corporation). Together they developed methods for producing... 

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