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To: Jeff Bond who wrote (679)	1/7/1998 3:47:00 AM
From: Jeff Bond	Respond to of 886

An absolute MUST read to understand why Fairchild was a hotbed for talent. techweb.com Here are a few quotes to support this : 0. "Almost every semiconductor company in northern California can trace its ancestry to Fairchild." 1. "Eventually, eight key people-Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce and Sheldon Roberts-left the company to form Fairchild in a nearby garage."" 2. "Rock became involved again in 1968 with Noyce and Moore as a cofounder and as the first chairman of the board of Intel. He's still on that board." 3.. " In 1984 Siegel joined Cirrus Logic, where he is now vice president for international sales and business development." 4. "In 1979 Kleiner started a venture-capital partnership which, today, as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is one of the nation's leading funders of high-technology startups and early ventures." 5. "Baldwin moved on in 1970 to join Semtech and create a division manufacturing capacitors that could be used in the company's bridge rectifiers." - we all know about this great little company :o) 6. "In 1974 , one of Graham's clients, Applied Materials, invited him to join the company as vice president of marketing. Applied Materials, a $16 million company making semiconductor-production equipment, was nearly bankrupt." AND THIS "One of the companies he tried unsuccessfully to buy for Applied Materials was a small competitor, Novellus Systems, a startup maker of vapor-deposition equipment." AND THIS "In September 1986, he left Applied Materials and accepted a Novellus offer to become president and chief executive officer.".. - Todd, that one was for you :o) 7. "In February 1967, Smullen left Fairchild, as did Sporck, to join National Semiconductor." - This one is for me, I really like what NSM is doing today! 8. "None of this would have ever happended without the contributions of Tom Cat, who more than any person should be credited with everthing ... yes, everything". - HAHA, so I made one up, just didn't want to leave Tom Cat out :o) Regards, JB