The Fairchild/Shockley 8 who started Silicon Valley's first start up. USA, 1960

In 1957 eight employees left Shockley Semiconductor, the lab of Nobel Prize winner William Shockley, to form their own company. Fairchild Semiconductor was Silicon Valley's first start-up. From left to right, the "Traitorous Eight": Gordon Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.

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