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Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was 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 in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits. Schlumberger bought the firm in 1979 and sold it to National Semiconductor in 1987; Fairchild was spun off as an independent company again in 1997. In September 2016, Fairchild was acquired by ON Semiconductor.[4]

Company type

Public

October 1, 1957 (1957-10-01)

September 2016

Acquired by ON Semiconductor

,
United States

Worldwide

  • Mark Thompson (Chairman & CEO)[1]
  • Mark S. Frey (Executive Vice President, CFO & Treasurer)[1]

Decrease US$1.370 billion (2015)[2]

Decrease US$6.30 million (2015)[2]

Negative increase –US$15.1 million (2015)[2]

Decrease US$1.58 billion (2015)[2]

Decrease US$1.10 billion (2015)[2]

6,379 (2015)[2]

May 8, 1991

1000[3]

The company had locations in the United States at San Jose, California; San Rafael, California; South Portland, Maine; West Jordan, Utah; and Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. Outside the US, it operated locations in Australia;[5] Singapore; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines, among others.

Fairchild Aircraft

at the Wayback Machine (archived July 26, 2016)

Archive of Fairchild Semiconductor website

Fairchild Imaging

link to Fairchild Semiconductor history content on the Computer History Museum site.

IT Corporate Histories Collection

: What happened to the original Fairchild site and to Shockley Lab.

Buying Tomatoes at the Birthplace of Silicon Valley

The Silicon Gate Technology, developed at Fairchild in 1968 by F. Faggin et al., was presented at the IDEM in Washington DC, in Oct. 1968.

SEC filings