Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-31

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00:00:51 1 Shockley's return to California
00:02:58 2 Shockley diodes
00:04:10 3 Traitorous eight
00:05:47 4 See also



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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by 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, eight leading scientists resigned and became the core of what became  Fairchild Semiconductor. Shockley Semiconductor never recovered from this departure, and  was purchased by Clevite in 1960, then sold to ITT in 1968, and shortly after, officially closed.
The building remained, but was repurposed as a retail store.  By 2015 plans were made to demolish the site to develop a new building complex.  By 2017 the site was redeveloped with new signage marking it as the "Real Birthplace of Silicon Valley."