Rise of the Silicon Valley: From Skockley Labs to Fairchild Semiconductor

On February 13, 1956, co-inventor of the transistor William Shockley formally announced the establishment of Shockley Labs, Silicon Valley’s first semiconductor company. In their modest Quonset hut laboratory on San Antonio Avenue in Mountain View, Shockley’s hand-picked team of some of the nation’s brightest young scientists and engineers developed innovative technologies and ideas that forever changed the way we live, work and play. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this pivotal event in the history of our region, join technology historian Michael Riordan in a conversation between early Shockley employees and associates Jim Gibbons, Jay Last, Hans Queisser, and Harry Sello.



The Silicon Valley is more than a geographic location on a map. It is a phenomenon that has traveled the globe. From Bangalore to Lahore to Beijing to Tokyo. The idea of Silicon Valley has shown to be quite contagious. Infecting people after people, country after country and thus expanding itself to surpass physical boundaries.



Other than the people mentioned above, there are numerous other people whom you could refer to as the "unnamed" Foot Soldier or your all out Engineer who worked and continues to work day-in and day-out on the numerous projects that have kept the Silicon Valley flame lite.









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