Fairchild Briefing on Integrated Circuits

[Recorded: October, 1967]
This half hour color promotional/educational film on the integrated circuit was produced and sponsored by Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and first shown on television on October 11, 1967. In the film, Dr. Harry Sello and Dr. Jim Angell describe the integrated circuit (IC), discuss its design and development process, and offer examples of late 1960s uses of IC technology.
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was one of the most influential early high-tech companies. Founded in Palo Alto California in 1957 by eight scientists and engineers from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was funded by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation of Syossett, New York. Rapidly establishing itself as a technology innovator based on its invention of the planar manufacturing process in 1959, the company developed the first monolithic integrated circuit, the first CMOS device, and numerous other technical and business innovations. French oil field services company Schlumberger Limited purchased Fairchild in 1979 and sold a much weakened business to National Semiconductor in 1987. In 1997 National divested a group, formed as the present Fairchild Semiconductor, in a leveraged buy-out. The company re-emerged as a public entity based in South Portland, Maine in 1999 under the corporate name Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc.

Fairchild Semiconductor presented its new products and technologies with an entrepreneurial style, and its early manufacturing and marketing techniques helped give Californias Santa Clara County a new name: Silicon Valley. It was one of the early forerunners of what would become a worldwide high-tech industry, as evidenced in this short promotional film.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Computer History Museum
• semiconductor
• integrated circuits
• Planar Process
• chips
• microprocessor
• technology
• documentary
• Fairchild
• Intel
• AMD
• Moores Law

[Cyberspammer2000]

This old documentary is just simply AWESOMME!!!

[GLeNss]

I wish they brought out these today in the same style but with modern tech. Same voice please and suits haha

[Tonlondong]

Aww i.c. were so cute back then

[ijunkie]

looks like the guts of my space heater

[johny344]

@Cyberspammer2000 I dont know why i enjoy watching this so much, I think I may be a closet geek

[pikuorguk]

"Hello and welcome to a video, but first let's try and sell you some stuff for five minutes"

You Americans love your adverts.

[hazedanddazed]

SALARY: $975..-- year 1960

my room rent:$1200--year 2011..

hmmmm...

[evilgrayson79]

a tasty but inedible sandwich....nomnomnom

[wtfpwnman]

HOW DID THEY BUILD INTEGRATED CIRCUITS WITH SIDE RULES AND PENCILS?

[izsolt90]

it was pretty hard, but i managed to masturbate to this video

[SigEpBlue]

@3:06

"Here is a photograph of a printed circuit board from a digital computer, (?) 1960."

"Prehistoric!"

Oh God, the irony...! :)