In 1941, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter H Brattain would come up with the first working transistor at Bell Labs.
Today, we call this transistor a microprocessor.
Shockley would leave Bell Labs and go on to found his own firm Shockley Semiconductors Laboratory in 1955.
As per Business Insider, Shockley Semiconductors Laboratory, in Mountain View, would be the first firm to use silicon to build transistors.
By then, Terman had established the Stanford Research Park – a joint enterprise of Stanford University and Palo Alto city.
In 1957, eight employees of Shockley Semiconductors Laboratory would resign.
These employees, who Shockley nicknamed the “Traitorous Eight,” would team up with Sherman Fairchild and establish Fairchild Semiconductor.
Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby, part of the “Traitorous Eight” would discover that every part of a circuit could be built using silicon.
This would ultimately lead to the founding of the integrated circuit – still used in every microprocessor.
In 1961, ex-Fairchild backer Arthur Rock would form Davis & Rock – America’s first venture capital firm.
From now on, the funds to Silicon Valley would flow freely.
Fairchild Semiconductor built its reputation by helping make computer parts for Nasa’s Apollo program.
Members of the “Traitorous Eight” would go on to find their own success.
Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, for example, founded Intel in 1968. Other members also helped establish AMD and Nvidia.
The boom
In 1969, the Stanford Research Institute became home to one of four nodes of the government research project Arpanet.
Arpanet, which would be used to connect government computers and help researchers share documents, would later transform into the internet.
In 1970, Xerox would open its lab in Palo Alto.
Xerox’s lab would be responsible for much of the early technology including ethernet computing and the graphical user interface.
The decade saw heavyweights such as Atari, Apple, Microsoft and Oracle established in the Bay Area – which became the place to go. The 1980s saw Adobe, Cisco and Sun Microsystems being established, while the 1990s saw the founding of Netscape, e-bay, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, PayPal, and Netflix are founded.
Meta, X, Tesla and Uber are founded would be founded in the next decade.
For anyone dreaming of success in Tech, Silicon Valley remains the place to be.
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