Fine Print: The Fairchild/Shockley 8 who started Silicon Valley's first start up. USA, 1960
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Fine Print: The Fairchild/Shockley 8 who started Silicon Valley's first start up. USA, 1960

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In 1957 eight employees left Shockley Semiconductor, the lab of Nobel Prize winner William Shockley, to form their own company. Fairchild Semiconductor was Silicon Valley's first start-up. From left to right, the "Traitorous Eight": Gordon Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.

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In 1957 eight employees left Shockley Semiconductor, the lab of Nobel Prize winner William Shockley, to form their own company. Fairchild Semiconductor was Silicon Valley's first start-up. From left to right, the "Traitorous Eight": Gordon Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.