Today's question is courtesy Mekhala. Identify the significance of the photo on the right and if possible the individuals as well. The visual on the left is a clue towards identifying them.Answer: The people on the right were the so called "Traitorous Eight". They left Shockley semiconductors to form Fairchild semiconductors whose spinoff companies eventually created the Silicon valley (shown in the first visual). Rajeev, QoD, Ramji, Ashwin, Adi and Rajesh got it. Well done.
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Traitorous Eight.
Silicon Valley (the original one) start-ups.
The group on the right are Freescale Semiconductors alumni, who went on to found much of those (now Fortune 100) companies.
Left is silicon valley
Right is the traitorous eight,
they left shockley semiconductor labs because it decided to stop research on silicon transisters and founded Fairchild Semiconductors (both in Silicon valley). A few years after they founded it, some of the original members left to start up some of the famous silicon valley companies which includes Intel.
-QOD
the 'fairchild eight' who left shockley's semiconductor company to start their own
The picture on the right is of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductors, one of the first people to start mass production of semiconductor ICs, which led to the silicon valley (on the left)
The "traitrous eight" who left Scockley Semiconductors to form Fairchild Semiconductors --- one of the first companies of the silicon valley.
For more details see
The role of Fairchild in silicon technology in the early days of Silicon Valley by Gordon Moore
Right image - Fairchild Eight. They started Fairchild Semiconductors which was instrumental in making Silicon Valley a technological hub. People in the image - Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts.
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