Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
in Mountain View, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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377 San Antonio Rd, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA Print route »Phone & WWW
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by renowned inventor William Shockley as a division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1956. It was the first high technology company in what came to be known as Silicon Valley to work on silicon-based semiconductor devices.In 1957, the division's eight leading scientists resigned and became the core of what became Fairchild Semiconductor. Shockley Semiconductor never recovered from this loss of personnel, and was purchased by Clevite in 1960, then sold to ITT in 1968, and shortly after, officially closed.
