Talk:Fairchild Semiconductor

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Does anyone know where the original Fairchild Semiconductor building was located. I was told there is a placque at the location and I would like to see it if it exists. Tnx!

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Are you sure you're not referring to Shockley Semi? It's now a furnature store, and a placque is there.

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Copied from Talk:Main Page on 18 June 2004:

[edit] Pollution

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

[edit] Fairchild Semiconductor article

This article is seriously out of date. Fairchild Semiconductor has been alive and well since a management buyout from National Semiconductor in 1997. It is now the number one supplier of power semiconductors in a range of applications. See http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/nys/fcs/reports/fcs_factbook03d.pdf

I have no connection with Fairchild: I am a UK based freelance writer and photographer.

John Dwyer

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[Schlumberger purchased some divisions]

[Lawsuit with Data General? ]

[2005 Fairchild Chronicles released on DVD]

What are these brackets for ?

[Advertising]

Some part of the article is written in an commercial tone.

Eric C

[edit] 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)