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.

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[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

[ungratefulmetalpansy]

The modern version would be in Chinese. North America is more about entertainment and real estate scams these days.

[rbolo29]

Shit! I just realized this was 10 years before I was born.

[youreale]

Companies like this have all my respect. This groundbreaking work made possible the future where we actually live.

[Lute Scrat]

baddass documentary

[trisky1234]

If you would have shown them a picture of the layout of an Intel Xeon processor they would have fainted.

[yourrich]

thanks! i've seen a bunch of these vids on this subject, and this one is the only one that i really been able to understand. Plus its datedness is entertaining. Great vid!

[darren70215]

"in the OLD days it was simple" hahahaha that is the old days.!

[kennylavish]

The intro is way cool with eerie sounds. Love the 'commercials'! I had to watch the whole thing it's very informative. Great old school video nice upload!

[bboychance]

Yawn!

[gingersleep]

No wonder people were afraid of computers and automation back then. The intro to the video was pretty creepy. Lol, but it was still fun to watch, despite the nightmares it will probably give me...