On September 16, 2016, ON Semiconductor received confirmation that clearance related to the completion of its proposed acquisition of Fairchild from the Ministry of Commerce in the People’s ...

Fairchild Semiconductor was once the granddaddy of the chip industry. Then it disappeared. Now a new Fairchild descended from the old is taking the storied name to new heights.

Fairchild Semiconductor fulfills its IBM contract order for 100 silicon transistors, priced at $150 each, 30 times the going rate for the less-sturdy standard germanium transistor.

As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results ...

Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, the California semiconductor chip maker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achieving the kind of industrial dominance ...

The two companies leading the race to commercial transistors—Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments—understood the implications early on.

Finally, Sherman Fairchild, an inventor whose father was a founder of IBM, invested $1.5 million to start Fairchild Semiconductor with the rogue engineers.

Fairchild Semiconductor . 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 ...

Fairchild Semiconductor put the silicon in Silicon Valley. But by the 21st century, it needed to reimagine itself. "Wonder Wanders" and "Analogous Explorations" made the difference.

Moon Landing, by weaver Margo Selby and composer Helen Caddick, is a 16m (52ft) handwoven textile suspended from The Trinity ...

T he CHIPS and Science Act, which Congress enacted in 2022, promised $280 billion in funding to reverse a decline in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing (the nation went from producing 37% of the ...

Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the treacherous 8 (Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni, Jay Last) ...