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The Fairchild Chronicles is told in the words of those who lead the company,
including Gordon Moore, Wilf Corrigan, Jerry Sanders, and Charlie Sporck. It covers the period from Fairchild's founding in 1957 to the purchase of the company by National Semiconductor in 1986. Many anecdotes appearing throughout the DVD
are revealed publicly for the first time.
Through interviews with the people who made it happen, the Fairchild Chronicles
tells the story of the company that invented the integrated circuit, describing the events that spawned the first generation
of Silicon Valley technology companies. The DVD was co-produced by Rob Walker from Walker Research Associates of Menlo Park, and Kevin Bomberry from Panalta, Inc. of Palo Alto, and is based on the Stanford University archival
project "Silicon Genesis", a series of video oral histories of Silicon Valley.
"The Fairchild Chronicles extends this flexibility by offering a selection of
clips from these interviews organized around a specific theme, demonstrating the ways in which the
interviews offer different perspectives on a shared history." said Dr. Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections, at
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources
(SULAIR).
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Fairchild Chronicles' DVD.
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