Victor Grinich

An electrical engineer, Grinich worked for Stanford Research Institute, then for Shockley Semiconductor. But he and seven other top-notch engineers there weren't happy working at Shockley and in 1957 left to form their own company, Fairchild Semiconductor. There, the "Traitorous Eight", as Shockley called the defectors, developed the first commercial integrated circuit, which led to the microprocessor -- and the PC revolution. After leaving Fairchild in the 1960s, Grinich taught at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He died November 5 from prostate cancer. He was 75. From This is True for 5 November 2000 Suggestions for further reading: Solid State Electronic Devices (6th Edition) by Ben Streetman, Sanjay Banerjee Amazon Price: $115.11 Customer Review: The vendor sent me evidence of shipping but I never received this product GCF   Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret Amazon Price: $130.26 Customer Review: This textbook is excellent, it is the basic, number one point of starting the journey into the device world. Clear, concise, written as it shuold be done. To someone this book will seem to be very simple, not enough details coverd and no...   Introduction to Microelectronic Fabrication: Volume 5 of Modular Series on So... by Richard C. Jaeger Amazon Price: $54.45 Customer Review: I bought this textbook for a graduate level mechanical engineering course. The material in there is solid. The explanations are not always self-evident (i.e. I cannot understand all of the material without lecture to clarify the material), but all of...   The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition by Thomas H. Lee Amazon Price: $74.26 Customer Review: I have enjoyed reading this book. It has a writing style that keeps your interest and covers a wide variety of RF topics in a manner that is easy to understand. He covers microwave topics of s-parameters and smith charts and ciruit topics of LNAs, m...   The Physics of Solar Cells (Properties of Semiconductor Materials) by Jenny Nelson Amazon Price: $49.50 Customer Review: Good book if you are interested in Solar Energy. Kind of hard material to understand I thought.   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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