The building that once housed the old Fairchild Semiconductor plant in Shiprock, NM, USA on the Navajo tribe still stands today. It was repurposed as a hardware store for some time and when I stepped foot into that store in the 2010s hadn't realized the historical significance of the building at the time. Interesting to know that Indigenous Americans had a part in early semiconductor manufacturing, specifically the Fairchild 9040 chip :)
Jerry Sanders mentions the importance of bit-slice microprocessors to the growth of AMD, opining that AMD's 4-bit 2901 (introduced in 1975) was superior to Intel's 2-bit 3002 (introduced in 1973). AMD didn't originate the 4-bit slice. Credit for that goes to Monolithic Memories, who introduced the mostly forgotten 6701 in 1974. The 2901 is very similar to and seems to have been inspired by the 6701. By 1975, AMD had moved on from mostly second-sourcing to making improved parts and chose to improve upon rather than second-source the 6701. Monolithic Memories went on to develop the PAL (Programmable Array Logic) and merged with AMD in 1987.
The first commerical IC op-amp was the Fairchild μA702 designed by Bob Widlar at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. It was followed by Widlar's much-improved uA709 in 1965. The National Semiconductor LM101 and Fairchild uA741 followed shortly thereafter.
All of this and not a word about the man who made it all possible: Sherman Fairchild. Typical human creeps. Not as bad as Watson, Crick and Wilkins, but bad nonetheless.
Started my career in 1972 at Fairchild, went to National in 1973 and then to AMD in 1982.
The building that once housed the old Fairchild Semiconductor plant in Shiprock, NM, USA on the Navajo tribe still stands today. It was repurposed as a hardware store for some time and when I stepped foot into that store in the 2010s hadn't realized the historical significance of the building at the time. Interesting to know that Indigenous Americans had a part in early semiconductor manufacturing, specifically the Fairchild 9040 chip :)
Who has come to this after reading "chip war"?
Lmao 😂
Fascinating.
Wow, this is amazing to see all these people in one place.
Jerry Sanders mentions the importance of bit-slice microprocessors to the growth of AMD, opining that AMD's 4-bit 2901 (introduced in 1975) was superior to Intel's 2-bit 3002 (introduced in 1973). AMD didn't originate the 4-bit slice. Credit for that goes to Monolithic Memories, who introduced the mostly forgotten 6701 in 1974. The 2901 is very similar to and seems to have been inspired by the 6701. By 1975, AMD had moved on from mostly second-sourcing to making improved parts and chose to improve upon rather than second-source the 6701. Monolithic Memories went on to develop the PAL (Programmable Array Logic) and merged with AMD in 1987.
Cool stuff....spent most of 2005 working @ Fairchild Semiconductor in South Portland, ME.
Of course the sales guy would try to be the Center of attention, even though he played a far smaller role then most others
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The first commerical IC op-amp was the Fairchild μA702 designed by Bob Widlar at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. It was followed by Widlar's much-improved uA709 in 1965. The National Semiconductor LM101 and Fairchild uA741 followed shortly thereafter.
this is amazing
Was it Fairchild invented the OP AMP 709-741
type of chip?
All of this and not a word about the man who made it all possible: Sherman Fairchild. Typical human creeps. Not as bad as Watson, Crick and Wilkins, but bad nonetheless.
Well he got greedy and eventually led to the downfall of the company so most credit rightfully goes to the fairchild 8
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