12 events with tag "semiconductors"
1957
ID: 4374
October 1957
Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and six others leave Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild - birth of Silicon Valley culture
ID: 4374
1959
ID: 4376
National Semiconductor founded in Connecticut - later moves to Silicon Valley, becomes major chip producer
ID: 4376
1959
ID: 4375
January 1959
Robert Noyce invents planar process for integrated circuits at Fairchild - enables mass production of chips
ID: 4375
1961
ID: 4377
Max Palevsky founds Scientific Data Systems - later sold to Xerox for $920 million, funds Intel
ID: 4377
1969
ID: 4379
Intel develops 1101 - first commercial DRAM chip with 256 bits, establishes Intel in memory market
ID: 4379
1969
ID: 4380
May 1969
Jerry Sanders and seven other Fairchild employees found AMD - 'People first, products and profits will follow'
ID: 4380
1971
ID: 4381
Intel introduces 1702 EPROM - erasable programmable read-only memory, can be reprogrammed with UV light
ID: 4381
1974
ID: 4383
Federico Faggin leaves Intel to found Zilog - creates Z80 processor that dominates 8-bit market
ID: 4383
1976
ID: 4385
AMD signs second-source agreement with Intel - can manufacture Intel processors, crucial for IBM PC deal
ID: 4385
1987
ID: 4390
Andy Grove becomes Intel CEO - transforms company from memory to microprocessors, 'Only the Paranoid Survive'
ID: 4390
1987
ID: 4401
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) founded - pure-play foundry model revolutionizes chip industry
ID: 4401
1999
ID: 4406
Intel reaches 180nm process technology - Coppermine Pentium III, continuing Moore's Law progression
ID: 4406