The traitorous eight were a group of employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor #chipwar

The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. William Shockley had in 1956 recruited a group of young Ph.D. graduates with the goal to develop and produce new semiconductor devices. While Shockley had received a Nobel Prize in Physics and was an experienced researcher and teacher, his management of the group was authoritarian and unpopular. This was accentuated by Shockley's research focus not proving fruitful. After the demand for Shockley to be replaced was rebuffed, the eight left to form their own company.

1. Gordon Moore,
2. C. Sheldon Roberts,
3. Eugene Kleiner,
4. Robert Noyce,
5. Victor Grinich,
6. Julius Blank,
7. Jean Hoerni
8. Jay Last

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is a 2022 nonfiction book written by Chris Miller, an economic historian. It tells about the transformation of the semiconductor into an essential component of contemporary life. Miller describes in detail some of the geopolitical battles. The book received the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_World%2...

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