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a grandpa silicon company (and more shots below)
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which was founded by the legendary transistor co-inventor and nobel laureate William Shockley, was located here that marked the twilight of the silicon era in the valley...
the projects didn't fly though, and the only things left are the plaque merged to the ground and a sign raised to the blue californian sky... here (see more pics below), and probably in all the gadgets everywhere in the world from the evolutions or revolutions later on... from "Traitorous Eight" departing for Fairchild and then many many great companies... a lot of stories for sure...
as of 2006 it was apparently occupied by a small store selling farm produce according to the wiki (some bitterness can be sensed there for some reasons), and the building was empty with the sign taken out as seen above... at the corner of the greater san antonio shopping plaza nowadays...
the "lab" was running between 1956 and 1968...
the plaque was dedicated in year 2000, see the contents below in the comment... and here is the official web site with a link to some old pictures at www.shockleytransistor.com/
city of mountain view, california, july 2007
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some photo update in may 2009 below #5~#7, the location has business back again, see the far below photos...
a grandpa silicon company (and more shots below)
#1
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which was founded by the legendary transistor co-inventor and nobel laureate William Shockley, was located here that marked the twilight of the silicon era in the valley...
the projects didn't fly though, and the only things left are the plaque merged to the ground and a sign raised to the blue californian sky... here (see more pics below), and probably in all the gadgets everywhere in the world from the evolutions or revolutions later on... from "Traitorous Eight" departing for Fairchild and then many many great companies... a lot of stories for sure...
as of 2006 it was apparently occupied by a small store selling farm produce according to the wiki (some bitterness can be sensed there for some reasons), and the building was empty with the sign taken out as seen above... at the corner of the greater san antonio shopping plaza nowadays...
the "lab" was running between 1956 and 1968...
the plaque was dedicated in year 2000, see the contents below in the comment... and here is the official web site with a link to some old pictures at www.shockleytransistor.com/
city of mountain view, california, july 2007
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some photo update in may 2009 below #5~#7, the location has business back again, see the far below photos...