Going way back, Intel was founded by refugees from Fairchild Semiconductor, who earlier left Shockley Semiconductor.
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Shockley was once described as having reverse - oh, missed on a word, but...
Shockley was out of it by the time Kilby came up with the microprocessor.
In the mid-1950s, Shockley was the place to be if you were interested in electronics.
They both thought Shockley was an extraordinary scientist, but not much of a manager.
He was going to do something that was called the Shockley diode, which had virtually no market whatsoever.
He performed weapons research at Johns Hopkins University before returning to California in 1956 to join Shockley Semiconductor.
Did they do it, his two collaborators, or did Shockley have a whole lot of input into that, also?
Then a business plan crossed his desk from eight young engineers in California disenchanted with the tumultuous atmosphere at Shockley Semiconductor.
Shockley was the team leader, and Brattain and Bardeen worked for him.
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Mr. JOEL SHURKIN (Author, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age): Hi, (unintelligible), how are you?
He's author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
And I was wondering did Shockley, you know, did he ever have any - was there any involvement by Jack Kilby in this work?
After overseeing Fairchild, where he helped bring the microprocessor to market, Noyce and fellow Shockley traitor Gordon Moore went on to start Intel Corp.
Joel Shurkin, author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Mr. SHURKIN: Shockley had decided he was going to change technologies.
"In line with Motorola Solutions' ongoing support of the iDEN network, Motorola Mobility is committed to working with Sprint, " said Mark Shockley, senior vice president, Motorola Mobility.
One of his best friends said that Shockley and his wife were in an automobile accident in 1960, and Shockley, in fact, hit his head on a windshield.
At the lab, Moore met up with Robert Noyce, a 28-year-old physicist who had come to Shockley by way of Grinnell College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"When we talk to people who love their QWERTY smartphones, it's evident this segment is passionate about their keyboards, " said Mark Shockley, senior vice president, Go-to-Market, Motorola Mobility.
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I'm talking with Joel Shurkin, author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, just out. 1-800-989-8255 is our number.
It's almost a certainty that if you're listening to this program now you're using tiny electronic devices that can trace their heritage back to the mind of William Shockley.
Tell us who, for people who don't know, you know, the history of William Shockley and the transistor, give us a little thumbnail sketch of his involvement with it.
As the documentary unfolds, we learn of the frustrations and limitations the eight felt under William Shockley, who invented the transistor and won a Nobel Prize for his work.
From member station WUWM in Milwaukee, Christina Shockley reports.
William Shockley's Nobel Prize-winning brainchild, the transistor, changed everything.
Shockley, in an absolute fury because he had been aced by his own team, went into a hotel room in Chicago and in several furious days produced what became the junction transistor.
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