EPISODE · Jun 8, 2023 · 46 MIN
The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children
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For this episode of RIP Corp, we take a closer look at Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and integrated circuits. After its well-documented breakthroughs, the company that helped invent an entire industry, and arguably the single most technologically significant one in the 20th century, failed to remain competitive. We explore how the way we understand Fairchild’s story (or don’t) matters for how we think about the past, present, and future of chip manufacturing.
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The Story of This Town is Failure: Fairchild Semiconductor and Its Children
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