Fairchild Semiconductor, incubator for many Silicon Valley semiconductor executives, is in the process of being acquired by ON Semiconductor. Previously, Fairchild Semiconductor was a subsidiary of ...

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore had done well for themselves at Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce had become general manager, and Moore was head of Research and Development. But the company was still under ...

(Reuters) - ON Semiconductor Corp is to buy Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc for $2.4 billion to bolster its business of making power-management chips, the latest in a rapidly consolidating ...

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was a semiconductor company founded by eight employees of Shockley Transistor. Branded as the "traitorous eight" by William Shockley, they left as a group ...

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. Fairchild was ...