Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the "traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley... Wikipedia
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Founded: October 1, 1957
Defunct: September 2016
Number of employees: 6,379 (2015)
Founders: Sherman Fairchild, Arthur Rock, and Eugene Kleiner
Parent organization: Onsemi
Subsidiaries: Fairchild Semiconductor Pte. Ltd, System General, Fairchild Semiconductor (Philippines) Inc, and more