Company · Semiconductors · founded 1957
Fairchild Semiconductor
Early silicon chip maker whose founders and staff went on to start Intel, AMD and others.
Of the 5 people here linked to Fairchild Semiconductor, 2 are founders and 0 are still there. 3 of them also appear at Intel. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
5 people at Fairchild Semiconductor
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder; director of research and development
Source
· high confidence. The page dates the R&D director title to 1965 and gives no founding or departure year.
Semiconductors · Technology 3 / 0
Gordon Moore
Co-founder of Intel; author of Moore's Law
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder, 1957–1968
Source
· high confidence
Semiconductors · Technology 2 / 0
Robert Noyce
Co-inventor of the integrated circuit; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
middle-class · some · graduate degree
Employee Past
Role
Applications engineering consultant, later Chief Hardware Engineer and Director of Engineering and Marketing in the video game division, 1970–1980
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia, which gives 1980 as the year he left.
Technology 8 / 9
Gerald "Jerry" Lawson
Lead engineer, Fairchild Channel F; inventor of the video game cartridge system
working-class · outsider · some college
Employee Past
Role
Sales engineer, rising through marketing management, 1961–1968
Also at
Source
· medium confidence. The page says he was fired in 1968 but heads the section 1961 to 1969.
Semiconductors 7 / 1
Jerry Sanders
Co-founder, President and CEO, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
no family capital · outsider · college degree
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