In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor ... The company was founded by a group of disgruntled employees who left William Shockley's company, Shockley Semiconductor – the "traitorous eight," including ...

In May of 1957, just over a year after the company was founded, eight employees went ... and Sheldon Roberts. Thus Fairchild Semiconductor was born -- a company dedicated to building transistors ...

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore had done well for themselves at Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce had become general manager, and Moore was head of Research and Development. But the company was still ...

So Noyce became the eighth in the group that left Shockley in 1957 and founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce was the general manager of the company and while there invented the integrated chip ...

The film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor and in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce.