Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)

Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by throw0101a on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:52AM (#22063674)

Any relation to Fairchild Republic/Aircraft?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

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Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by pests on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:17PM (#22070128)

Sherman Fairchild started over 70 companies from photography to aviation to obviously semiconductors. Their cameras were used for some of the Apollo missions as well.

I always enjoy running across something related to him. He seemed to have his fingers in a lot of very important pies and surprised he doesn't get mentioned more.

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Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by mbel on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:04AM (#22063729)

Apparently yes! This seems to be the missing link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Camera_and_Instrumen...

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Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by stevefolta on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:48PM (#22069352)

Also related to the Fairchild 660 compressor, a legendary piece of audio recording equipment.

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