Silicon Valley History

Watching some Netflix with Ennie last night we played American Experience: Silicon Valley.This charted the course of several men who started at Shockley Semiconductor in the Bay Area in the 50's. Those men left the company to start their own company -- that wasn't mentioned for a while. As they were going through the history I started thinking about the company they founded.It wasn't Hewlett Packard since that was started up in the 30's. I wracked my brain and I declared to Ennie: "Fairchild." It was a guess.Holy crap if I wasn't right!  :-DWe continued watching and they started showing some of the folks that left Shockley to form Fairchild. The best one was this:Such the understatement.Yes, Gordon Moore is a chemist.Gordon Moore is also one of the founders of Intel.Many other companies were spawned off from Fairchild -- Intel, AMD, Data General among them.It's amazing that many of the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley went through Fairchild Semiconductor.