Traitorous Eight
The traitorous eight (German: "The traitorous eight"), eight entrepreneurs who in 1957, the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory , had left at Fairchild Semiconductor to found. The name The Treason Eight was invented by William B. Shockley , director of the Shockley Laboratorys. Others speak of the Fairchild Eight or Shockley Eight in a more neutral way . For a time they were also called the Fairchildren . The eight are: Victor Grinich , Robert Noyce , Gordon Moore , Eugene Kleiner , Julius Blank , Sheldon Roberts , Jean Hoerni and Jay Last .
history
The entrepreneurs left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory because they were not satisfied with Shockley's staff management. In fact, he expected research to be carried out on his own terms, and he expected results to be favored by himself rather than being guided by research.
The eight employees turned to Arnold Orville Beckman , whose Beckman Instruments company was then the sole shareholder in Shockley Semiconductor Laboratorys. They called for Shockley's removal. Beckman tried to find a new manager and disempowered Shockley. After a while it became clear that no replacement could be found. So Shockley got his powers back. The eight then left the lab and signed a contract with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation to form Fairchild Semiconductor .
Their business interests didn't end with Fairchild. Seven of the eight founded other companies. These companies are also sometimes referred to as Fairchildren .
- Victor Grinich became a professor at Berkeley and Stanford .
- Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel .
- Eugene Kleiner is a co-founder of the Kleiner Perkins venture capital company .
- Sheldon Roberts , Jean Hoerni and Jay Last founded Teledyne's predecessor .
- Julius Blank became a co-founder of Xicor .
literature
- Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Aaron Bernstein: In the Company of Owners: The Truth About Stock Options and Why Every Employee Should Have Them . Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 0-465-00700-7 .
- Ulmann, Bernd : Fairchild - From the Traitorous Eight to the Fairchildren . Retro - computers, games, culture, 2013, ISSN 1862-2348 , p. 60-61 .