Comments on: A Very Small Big Deal: How the Integrated Circuit Made Silicon Valley /blog/a-very-small-big-deal-the-history-of-the-integrated-circuit/ Connecting People to Places Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 .org/?v=7.0.2 By: Russ Mackey /blog/a-very-small-big-deal-the-history-of-the-integrated-circuit/#comment-83360 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:17:30 +0000 /?p=9236#comment-83360 You can’t refer to Fairchild Semiconductor as the first “Start-up” without including the role of Sherman Fairchild as “Silicon Valley’s first venture capitalist”. Without the resources of Sherman Fairchild’s other companies, Texas might have become the Silicon Sagebrush.

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