Talk:Fairchild Semiconductor/Archives/2013

Pollution
There is no discussion of Fairchild's poisoning of ground water in San Jose, Ca.

IC invention
This article (espically the caption on the pictures) tend to say Fairchild made the first IC. Not true- it was Texas Instruments. Have you heard of Jack Kilby!


 * Yes, I have? But read the plaque.  The Fairchild guys invented the first IC that could be commercially produced, or the first "monolithic" IC, in the sense that it didn't need a kludge of bond wires to interconnect the devices.  Kilby did a good thing, but Fairchild did even better. Dicklyon 02:47, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Didn't Intel invent the process to evaporate a layer of aluminum onto the wafer, then etch it with a pattern to form wiring? Bob Emmett (talk) 06:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hard to imagine. Didn't Fairchild and TI do that since about 1960 or earlier?  Dicklyon (talk) 22:40, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Alumni
I think this section linked to the wrong Robert Swanson. I think it should link to the Robert Swanson who cofounded Linear Technologies, not the one who cofounded Genentech. Unfortunately, there is no Wikipedia article on the former, so I took the liberty of disabling the link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelmace (talk • contribs) 19:40, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Offspring chart
Chart of "offspring companies" started by Fairchild employees: These might be useful for the article. • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  22:56, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * http://www.dsprelated.com/blogimages/RickLyons/Fairchild_figure4.JPG
 * http://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/186.php
 * http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/fairkid.pdf

Excellent source material for history of Robert Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor
If anyone is looking for an excellent source of information about the History of Fairchild Semiconductor or to add references take a look at this:

Robert Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1968

It is a well researched Havard Business School paper on the subject by Leslie R. Berlin.

Robert.Harker (talk) 22:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun" mentions the sale of the company to a French concern after a Japanese bid was balked by Congress. Is this fiction? The timeline for 1986 is sketchy. Do alumni have any comment on this? translator (talk) 17:18, 29 March 2013 (UTC)