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)
Sources
Wikipedia: Fairchild Semiconductor, Fairchild F8
