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Monday, September 6, 2021

Basic timeline of Fairchild Semiconductor

This post is a basic timeline of Fairchild Semiconductor. There are 20 events listed below chronologically.

William Shockley founds Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory within Beckman Instruments (1956)
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory employees found Fairchild Semiconductor (1957)
2N697 transistor (1958)
Silicon integrated circuit (1960)
Planar integrated circuit (1960)
Development on MOSFET transistors (1960's)
MOS p-channel devices (1964)
µA702 integrated circuit (1964)
µA741 integrated circuit (1968)
Commercial charge-coupled device (1973)
Fairchild F8 8-bit microprocessor (1975)
Fairchild Video Entertainment System (1976)
Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research (FLAIR) (1980)
Development on Clipper architecture (1980's)
C1000 chip (1986)
Fairchild Semiconductor is sold to National Semiconductor (1987)
Fairchild Semiconductor becomes independent again (1997)
Fairchild Semiconductor acquires Raytheon Corporation (1997)
Becomes publicly traded (1999)
ON Semiconductor acquires Fairchild Semiconductor (2016)

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