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Fairchild Semiconductor
| Fairchild Semiconductor | |
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| Type | Public |
| Founded | October 1, 1957 |
| Founder | Eugene Kleiner Gordon Moore Jean Hoerni Julius Blank Jay Last Victor Grinich Robert Noyce Sheldon Roberts |
| Fate | Acquired by ON Semiconductor |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California |
| Website | https://www.fairchildsemi.com/ |
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company. Founded in 1957 as the Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Fairchild was bought by Schlumberger in 1979 and was sold to National Semiconductor in 1987. In 1997 National spun off Fairchild as an independent company. In September of 2016 ON Semiconductor acquired Fairchild for $2.4 billion.
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Facts about "Fairchild Semiconductor"
| company type | public + |
| fate | Acquired by ON Semiconductor + |
| founded | October 1, 1957 + |
| founder | Eugene Kleiner +, Gordon Moore +, Jean Hoerni +, Julius Blank +, Jay Last +, Victor Grinich +, Robert Noyce + and Sheldon Roberts + |
| full page name | fairchild + |
| headquarters | Sunnyvale, California + |
| instance of | semiconductor company + |
| name | Fairchild Semiconductor + |
| website | https://www.fairchildsemi.com/ + |
| wikidata id | Q1096013 + |