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: CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th Edition) by Neil Weste, David Harris Amazon Price: $94.45 Customer Review: While CMOS is the working horse of the electronics industry, there are very few good comprehensive (and readable) books on the subject. This is especially so if your university education focused mainly on software. A solid understanding of electronic...   Microelectronics Circuit Analysis and Design by Donald Neamen Amazon Price: $137.98   Microelectronic Circuit Design by Richard Jaeger, Travis Blalock Amazon Price: $140.74 Customer Review: Thank you for delivering the book on-time as promised with the experdised service. Have a nice day!   Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret Amazon Price: $130.77 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...   Solid State Electronic Devices (6th Edition) by Ben Streetman, Sanjay Banerjee Amazon Price: $124.54 Customer Review: The edition is older and since its print many values have been rediscovered through more accurate experimentation. The processes taught and the math, however, will never change. My only concern about the book was quite a few examples had the decimal ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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