• The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. William Shockley...
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    Shockley called the young scientists the "traitorous eight" and said they would never be successful. The eight later left Fairchild and started companies...
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    founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the "traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. It became a pioneer...
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  • 6, 2014) was an American semiconductor pioneer, and member of the "traitorous eight" who founded Silicon Valley. Roberts earned a Bachelor's degree in...
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    Laboratory in Mountain View, California. Noyce left a year later with the "traitorous eight" upon having issues with Shockley's management style, and co-founded...
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  • 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley. Born to Croatian immigrant parents, his...
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  • engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably...
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  • was a spin-out of Shockley Transistor; the founders were Shockley's "traitorous eight" Intel was in turn a spin-out of Fairchild, as were many firms in the...
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  • libertarian and conservative political views. Technolibertarianism Traitorous eight Staff Writer. "David Sacks: Biography". Wall Street Journal. Archived...
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  • one of the original founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, part of the Traitorous Eight, and Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which...
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  • September 17, 2011) was an American semiconductor pioneer. A member of the traitorous eight, he left Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley's company to form...
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  • Big Tech – Grouping of the largest information technology companies Traitorous eight – Group of Shockley Semiconductor employees who left to found Fairchild...
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    management style, eight engineers left the company to form Fairchild Semiconductor; Shockley referred to them as the "traitorous eight". Two of the original...
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    suffered a minor cut. In late 1957, eight of Shockley's best researchers, who would come to be known as the "traitorous eight", resigned after Shockley decided...
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  • American physicist, silicon pioneer, and member of the so-called "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley. Last was born in Butler, Pennsylvania...
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    Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, but left with the "traitorous eight," when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the influential...
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  • hindered mass-production of ICs. According to the colleagues from the traitorous eight his idea was self-evident: of course, the passivating oxide layer forms...
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    raising money for small high-technology companies. In 1957, when the "traitorous eight" left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Rock was the one who helped...
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    based on his 1957 BTL memos. Swiss engineer Jean Hoerni (one of the "traitorous eight") attended the same 1958 meeting, and was intrigued by Atalla's presentation...
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    Shockley diode and a 2N696 transistor, even though the 2N696 was made by the traitorous eight who defected from Shockley to start Fairchild Semiconductor....
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  • former CEO of DHL Sheldon Roberts (M.S. 1949, ScD 1952) – one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor; co-founder of Amelco which later...
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  • late 1957, eight of his researchers resigned and with support from Sherman Fairchild formed Fairchild Semiconductor. Among the "traitorous eight" was Gordon...
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  • Semiconductor In 1957, the company was approached by members of the "traitorous eight" to rescue the group from the authoritarian regime of William Shockley...
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    actively investigate semiconductor devices until a few years after the "traitorous eight" abandoned William Shockley to create Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957...
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  • Aircraft Ltd. Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Camera and Instrument Traitorous eight Silicon Valley "Sherman Mills Fairchild". Butler County Warbirds. Archived...
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    Moore and Noyce had left Fairchild Semiconductor and were part of the "traitorous eight". There were originally 500,000 shares outstanding of which Dr. Noyce...
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  • Friedman Fleischer & Lowe Victor Grinich (Ph.D. 1953), one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor Andrew Grove (Lecturer), founder...
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  • Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View in 1956. Robert was one of the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley in 1957 and started Fairchild Semiconductor. He...
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  • fallacy/Berkson's paradox. Julius Blank – engineer, member of the "Traitorous Eight" who founded Silicon Valley Eli Brookner - BEE 1953 - Radar authority...
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    Neanderthal collection in the world Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Traitorous eight/Silicon Valley Victor Grinich Author of the term psychology Marko Marulić...
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