The Silicon Genesis interviews listed below are available in two formats:

*As VHS videotapes housed in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. These copies are non-circulating and must be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. Archival beta-format copies are also available for broadcast or other special purposes. The Reading Room is open 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. For more information about the collections and access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail at [email protected], via the Department's Electronic Reference Form, or by regular mail: Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.

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Steve Allen, Lawrence Bender, Richard Steinheimer

These three men directed Fairchild's pioneering work in chip photography and art. They have donated 35mm slides of their photographs to the Stanford Libraries' Silicon Valley Archives. A transcript of this interview is available here.

Gil Amelio

Gil Amelio started his semiconductor career at Bell Labs after receiving his Ph.D.. He developed CCD manufacturing techniques which made them commercially practical. He was recruited to Fairchild where he headed up the MOS division. Then he took over the Rockwell semiconductor operation, successfully transitioning the operation to profitability. He then became CEO of National Semiconductor when Charlie Sporck retired. He was recruited to Apple Computer as CEO, ultimately being forced out of the position. A transcript is available here.

Jack Balleto

Jack Balletto, a 37-year Silicon Valley veteran, is a respected venture investor and entrepreneur. Balletto received master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Santa Clara, and in 2002 was honored by the University as one of its distinguished engineering graduates. His career began at Lockheed where he worked in the microwave/ECM (electronic countermeasure) field. He then joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1969. After Fairchild and a short stint at Ricoh Electronics, Balletto co-founded his first semiconductor company – Synertek – with two associates from Fairchild Semiconductor. Synertek became a major factor in the advent of both the video game and the PC industries. The company was successfully acquired by Honeywell in 1978. At his second startup, VLSI Technology, Balletto was a founder and its first CEO. In 1983, 26 months after its first and only venture round, VLSI had an IPO which raised over $60 million. VLSI was largely responsible for launching the EDA, foundry, and ASIC industries. After a 20-year existence as one of the Valley's most innovative companies, VLSI was acquired by Philips Semiconductor in 1999. After co-founding two vertically integrated semiconductor companies and spending twenty years in a variety of operating roles in the semiconductor and microwave industries, Balletto launched his career in venture capital. He worked in Hambrecht & Quist's (H&Q) venture capital group where he was involved with joint ventures in Japan, London, and Australia. He also sourced the first financing round for Xilinx to H&Q and later sponsored a capital equipment company, ATEQ, whose scanning laser lithography machines are now responsible for producing a significant percentage of the reticles printed in the United States. Eventually the company was acquired by Applied Materials. In 1996 he formed the first of three Sunrise Capital funds. Mr. Balletto earned his Master's ('67) and Bachelor's ('62) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. A transcript is available here.

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Robert Blair

Robert Blair was LSI Logic's eleventh employee and headed up the first product marketing and international activities. In this 2011 interview, 30 years to the month after joining LSI, he discusses establishing LSI's European operations immediately following LSI's successful US IPO. Starting with sales offices and design centers in the major markets of the UK, Germany, France and Italy, LSI Europe successfully cloned the ASIC design business previously established in the USA, and ultimately manufacturing operations were established in Germany and later the UK. At it's height LSI Europe was delivering leading edge ASICs to OEMs such as Nixdorf Computer, Norsk Data, International Computers Limited, Telettra, GTE, as well as others in France, Sweden, Israel and Switzerland. A transcript is available here.

Paul Brokaw

Paul Brokaw has held a variety of positions at Analog Devices, and is presently an analog fellow.� He has designed a variety of products, including A/D and D/A converters, sensors, voltage references and amplifiers.� He holds over one hundred patents.� In this 2006 interview, he describes the attributes of a successful engineer.� A transcript is available here.

Don Brooks

Don spent many years at Texas Instruments in variety of positions. He was recruited to Fairchild and became the last CEO of the California company. He recounts his efforts to save Fairchild that ultimately resulted in its sale to National. He then took over the reins at Taiwan Semiconductor and made it the first profitable semiconductor foundry. A transcript is available here.

Dennis Carter

Dennis Carter was Vice President and Director of Marketing at Intel in the 1990s, when it grew from a component supplier to one of the world's most widely recognized consumer brands in the world. In this 2004 interview, he recounts his four years as Technical assistant to Andy Grove, and what he learned about Grove's management style and drive. He then initiated and managed Intel's successful Graffiti Program to encourage upgrades from the 286 to 386 and the 486, increasing both the company's margin and segment share of the microprocessor market. He went on to create and manage the Intel Inside Program that made Intel a household name alongside BMW and Coke. A transcript is available here.

Wilf Corrigan

Wilf Corrigan has been a major player in the semiconductor industry since 1960. In this 1998 interview he reviews his 38-year career at Transitron, Motorola, Fairchild, and LSI Logic and discusses advances in semiconductor technology since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958. A transcript is available here.

Bob Dobkin and Jim Williams

Bob Dobkin and Jim Williams are world famous analog IC designers. Bob has over 30 years experience in design and developed many advanced products at National Semiconductor and Linear Technology, including the first 3 terminal adjustable voltage regulator. Jim Williams is well known for his writing and lectures on analog circuits and instrumentation. A transcript is available here.

James Downey directed Fairchild's work in MOS technology and ASIC, inventing "standard cell" technology. He later went on to head Advanced Micro Devices MOS operations. A transcript is available here.

John East

John East has been in the semiconductor industry for over forty years. Beginning with his high school years as a ham radio enthusiast, he always wanted to be an electrical engineer. Graduating from the University of California with BSEE, and MBA degrees, he began his career at Fairchild Semiconductor. He gained experience at a variety of manufacturing, product engineering, design engineering and marketing positions. He eventually left to move to AMD, where he supervised both bipolar and MOS design. In 1998, he became CEO of Actel Corp, a provider of field programmable gate arrays. A transcript is available here.

Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin developed Fairchild's original silicon gate technology in the late 1960's, then joined Intel in 1970, where he designed the 4004 microprocessor. In 1974, he struck out on his own to found Zilog, which produced the Z80 and Z8000 microprocessors. A transcript of this interview is available.

Jack Gifford

Jack Gifford went to Fairchild in 1965 and became the semiconductor industry's first linear integrated circuit product manager. After leaving Fairchild, Jack co-founded Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and recruited Jerry Sanders. Always passionate about analog integrated circuits, he became president of Intersil and then founded Maxim Integrated Products. In this 2002 interview, Jack tells of his tempestuous relationships with industry legends Bob Widlar, Jean Hoerni, Jerry Sanders, Jack Welch, and others. A transcript is available here.

Paul Gray, Engineering Dean of the University of California at Berkeley, has made fundamental contributions in the fields of mixed signal MOS integrated circuits. In this 1998 interview he discusses Fairchild, early pioneers of the industry, and aspects of engineering education. A transcript is available here.

The husband and wife team of Arlene Harris and Martin Cooper have defined the wireless age. Arlene, as a child of five, worked in her parents' radio mobile telephone company, MetroCal , later ICS, in Los Angeles . She has been a Wireless Entrepreneur for thirty-five years and is the founder and CEO of GreatCall, who launched the Jitterbug, easy to use cell phone, with partner Samsung in 2006. Martin Cooper is a pioneer and inventor in the wireless communications industry. He introduced the first portable cell phone in 1973 during his twenty-nine year career with Motorola. He is a co-founder of GreatCall and is Chairman of ArrayComm, today, a leader in cellular antenna development. A transcript is available here.

John Hennessy is a pioneer in the fields of computer architecture, microprocessor design and microprogramming. In this 2005 interview, Professor Hennessy describes his development of a tic-tac toe player in high school, which set him on the road to computer design, beginning with his university studies leading to a PhD at Stanford University. Through his many VLSI projects at Stanford he gained an appreciation of microprocessor design that led to a leave of absence to co-found RISC computer maker MIPS. He describes the RISC-CISC wars and how, with the benefits of Moore's law and Intel's marketing and production clout, they were able to prevail in the desktop and server markets with the aging X86 architecture. He tells of his rise through Stanford University from professor to Dean to Provost and most recently to President, explaining why Stanford is the most entrepreneurial university in the world. A transcript is available here.

Shawn and Kim Hailey discuss the history of the SPICE circuit simulator and their company, Meta Software. A transcript is available here.

Brian Halla served in a number of positions at Control Data and Intel before joining LSI Logic as Executive Vice President of the product group. In May, 1996, he joined National Semiconductor as President and CEO. Up until that time, he'd been involved almost exclusively with digital products. A transcript is available here.

Richard Hodgeson

The late Richard Hodgson describes the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor in this 1995 interview. A transcript is available here.

Dr. Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. joined Intel in 1968, where he was the architect for the very first microprocessor. In 1980, Ted was named the first Intel Fellow, the highest technical position in the company. He is currently VP and Chief Technical Officer with Teklicon, Inc. This 1995 interview covers his involvement in the design and development of the first commercially available microprocessor, the Intel 4004. A transcript of this video is available.

Lester Hogan was an early innovator in the semiconductor and microwave electronics industry. He was president of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, which he joined in 1968 after demonstrating his leadership abilities at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Motorola, Inc. This 1995 interview covers the early days of Motorola's semiconductor operation and the post-Noyce days at Fairchild. A transcript of this video is available.

Dave House

Dave was at Intel for twenty-two years, thirteen of which as General Manager of the microprocessor division. In this 2005 interview, he describes the steps taken to maintain and strengthen Intel's position of dominance in the microprocessor market.� From the 286, 386, 486 and through the Pentium line, Dave made sure that Intel remained the dominant player in the microprocessor field. A transcript is available here.

Jenson is a co-founder and CE0 of Nvidia, a manufacturer of Graphical Processor Unit integrated circuits. Born in Taiwan he came to the USA and became an Electrical Engineer. After stints at AMD, LSI Logic and Sun he cofounded Nvidia. In this 2010 interview he discusses his core values and management philosophy .

Jim Koford

Jim Koford is a true pioneer of the semiconductor industry, having originated the industries first logic simulator while at Fairchild in the 1960s. He was in charge of LSI Logic's design automation for most of the 1980s and a co-founder of Monterey Design Systems. A transcript is available here.

Regis McKenna is founder and chairman of The McKenna Group, a management and marketing consulting firm specializing in the application of information and telecommunications technologies. He is responsible for helping to launch some of the most important technology products of the last twenty-five years, including the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, and the first commercially successful personal computers (Apple Computer). This 1995 interview discusses early developments at Intel and Apple as well as Silicon Valley philosophy. A transcript of this video is available.

Bernie Marren

Bernie Marren has a long and notable career in semiconductors. He began at Fairchild Semiconductor and later served as CEO of distributor Western Micro Technology and MOS pioneer American Microtechnology. He was a founder of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and served as it's first president. At the time of this interview he was president of OPTI, a chip set and technology licensing firm. In the interview Bernie discusses the role of distribution in semiconductor sales and the increasing importance of intellectual property protection. A transcript is available here.

Stan was a member of the Intel 4004 design team, considered to be the first commercially available microprocessor. Ted Hoff designed the architecture, Federico Faggin the logical and physical design, while Stan wrote application programs and defined some instructions. After the 4004, Stan contributed to the 8080 and 8086 microprocessors, the predecessors of today's Pentium products. After leaving Intel, he became a computer-aided design specialist at Silicon Compilers Synopsys and others. A transcript is available here.

William Mensch

William Mensch headed development of the Motorola 6800 and the General Instrument 6801 microprocessors. A transcript of this interview is available here.

Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore joined Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory shortly after its founding in 1956 and worked on semiconductor process technology with William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. Moore was on the original team at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and co-founded Intel in 1968, where he developed large-scale integrated products beginning with semiconductor memories. His recognition of the trend that integrated circuit complexity doubles every 18 to 24 months, known today as Moore's Law, has become one of the driving principles of the semiconductor industry. A transcript of this interview is available.

Jim Morgan

Jim Morgan took charge of Applied Materials in 1976. The semiconductor equipment maker was in default on bank loans and on the verge of bankruptcy. Jim sold off its non-core businesses and refinanced loans to bring the firm back to profitability. In 2003 Applied Materials was profitable, number one in the semiconductor equipment marketplace and brought in sales of over five billion dollars. In this 2004 interview, Jim
discusses his business philosophy, competing in the global marketplace and why he routinely invests an astounding 20% of revenue in R&D. A transcript is available here.

Gerry Parker

Gerry Parker joined Intel Corporation as employee number 99 in 1969. After 32 years with the company he retired in 2001 as Executive Vice President General Manager of the New Business Group. In his career at Intel he defined manufacturing processes and organization, including the all important introduction of new semiconductor processes into manufacturing, before moving to the New Business Group in 1999. In this 2003 interview Gerry describes the explosive growth of Intel and the unending challenges of transferring technology from R & D to production. A transcript is available here.

Pasquale Pistorio

Pasquale Pistorio (Agira, 6 january 1936) is an Italian company director, ex president of STMicroelectronics and board member of Confindustria. From 17 April 2007 until 3 December 2007 he was president of Telecom Italia. He graduated in Electrical Engineering , his early career was at Motorola where he became the European marketing director in 1967. From here his responsibility increased to Director of WorldWide Marketing, Vice President of Motorola Corporation and Director General of the International Semiconductor Division, responsible for planning, production and marketing worldwide excluding the USA. In 1980 he returned to Italy to lead the SGS group, a microelectronics company that then went on to merge with the semiconductor arm of Thompson, a French electronics company, becoming SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now known as STMicroelectronics), a company, which under his leadership, grew to became one of the leading worldwide manufacturers of semiconductors. In 2005 Pistorio stepped down as CEO and was named honorary president. Two years later he was nominated President of Telecom Italia. A transcript is available here.

Arthur Rock

As a young New York investment banker, Arthur Rock convinced the wealthy industrialist Sherman Fairchild to talk to eight dissatisfied scientists at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Fairchild liked what he saw and Fairchild Semiconductor was born out of their collaboration. Rock later moved to San Francisco and became the first venture capitalist. When Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore grew weary of the East Coast style of Fairchild management, Rock in a single afternoon raised the money to start a new company, Intel. Rock was also the money man behind Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems, and many other startups. In this 2002 interview Rock describes his investment criteria and philosophy. A transcript of this interview is available.

The late George Rostky was a journalist who covered the development of the semiconductor industry from its inception, which he discusses in this 1995 interview. He describes his interviews with semiconductor industry notables; audiotapes of this interviews have been donated to the Stanford University Libraries' Silicon Valley Archives. A transcript is available here.

W. "Jerry" Sanders III

Jerry Sanders graduated in 1958 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and was recruited to Fairchild Semiconductor in 1961. He was a star performer at Fairchild, becoming world-wide sales manager at the age of 31. When Bob Noyce left to found Intel, C. Lester Hogan was brought in as head of Fairchild and ended up firing the young and brash Sanders. Other former Fairchild employees had left to form Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) but could not obtain funding. Sanders was asked to join them, got the money, and became Chairman and CEO of AMD, a position he held from 1969 to 2002. In this 2002 interview, Sanders describes his 41 years in semiconductors and speculates on the future of technology. A transcript is available here.

Horst G. Sandfort

Horst Sandfort has been a leader in moving U.S. semiconductor companies into Europe. Starting in 1968 with Texas Instruments, he introduced their calculators into central Europe . Next, he did the same with Litronix. In the late '70s, he initiated Fairchild Consumer Electronics to Central Europe, and later became Director of International Marketing at Fairchild in Mountain View . From 1984 to 1994, he managed LSI Logic European operations. First, establishing a design center in Munich , and then he became LSI's President in Europe , including the responsibility for manufacturing. Since that time he has held CEO positions with a variety of American electronic firms. A transcript is available here.

George Scalise

George Scalise, President of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the SIA, has enjoyed a distinguished 30 year industry carreer. He has worked in senior positions at Motorola, Fairchild, AMD, Apple and MacStore. In this 2003 interview, George discusses the early days of semiconductors, and the issues of Japanese DRAM dumping. A transcript is available here.

Harry Sello was recruited by William Shockley to join Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories. He later became a senior member of Fairchild Semiconductor through the Noyce, Hogan and Roberts regimes. A transcript is available here.

Larry Sonsini

According to Business Week magazine, Larry Sonsini "is unquestionably the most
sought-after lawyer in Silicon Valley." As Chairman of law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, he has overseen hundreds of stock offerings. With a legal team of over 500 lawyers, roughly one third of Silicon Valley’s public companies are his clients. In this 2003 interview Larry shares his view on technology and public offerings. A transcript is available here.

Charlie Sporck

Charlie learned manufacturing at General Electric and was recruited to Fairchild as their first dedicated manufacturing director. He was there as the planar process was being developed, which, together with the manufacturing equipment and organization, became the foundation of Silicon Valley. Later he became CEO of National Semiconductor where he instituted a no-nonsense style of management. He offers his insights on the successes and failures of Fairchild and National, and their abortive forays into consumer markets. A transcript is available here.

Ray Stata

Ray Stata co-founded Analog Devices in 1965. In this 2006 interview, Stata, now Chairman of the company, discusses his experiences in over forty years in the analog module and integrated circuit business. He explains the basic business tenets that have kept ADI growing through decades of technological revolution. A transcript is available here.

Bob Swanson

Bob Swanson was the founder of Linear Technologies Technology, a leader in the field of analog integrated circuits. He was a veteran of Transitron, Fairchild & National Semiconductor before founding Linear in 1981. In this 2006 interview, Bob describes the profitability of analog ICs, the advantages of Silicon Valley as a place to start a technology company and the importance of retaining the best engineers. A transcirpt is available here.

Richard S. Tedlow

Richard Tedlow is the class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he a specialist in the history of business. He is the author of several books including his latest Andy Grove: the life and times of an American. A transcirpt is available here

Robert Ulrickson and John Nichols chronicle Fairchild's pioneering developments in LSI and MSI and discuss what it takes to run a small electronics company. A transcript is available here.

Don Valentine started his semiconductor career at Fairchild Semiconductor, where as Sales Manager he hired bright young men such as Jerry Sanders, Jack Gifford, Mike Markula and many others who went on to become industry leaders. Then, as a founder of National Semiconductor, Don built its sales force from scratch. In 1972 he entered the Venture Capital field then still in it's infancy, founding Sequoia Capital. In this 2004 interview Don discusses the factors that make Silicon Valley great, and his criteria for investing. A transcript is available here.

Harold Vitale was responsible for the first high pin count computer-controlled IC tester, the Fairchild 8000A in the late sixties. This was followed by the 8000B and then to the Sentry Series of larger VLSI production testers. After the Schlumberger acquisition of Fairchild, he moved on to a series of larger test design challenges at GenRad, Trillium and Credence Corporation. Largely ignored in semiconductor histories, ever faster VLSI testers were key to the success of microprocessors and ASICS. A transcript is available here.

Bernard Vonderschmitt

The late Bernard Vonderschmitt served as vice president and general manager of the solid-state division at the RCA Corporation for more than 20 years. This 1995 interview covers the RCA semiconductor operation and the development of CMOS. A transcript is available here.

Rob Walker worked at both Fairchild and Intel before co-founding LSI Logic in 1981. In this 1998 interview he describes the early days of Silicon Valley with special emphasis on ASIC technology. A transcript is available here.

George Wells

George Wells, a native of Scotland, has been in the semiconductor industry since 1960 when he was hired at Transitron in the U.S. Later, heeding the call of Silicon Valley, George traveled west to Fairchild Semiconductor where he held a variety of management positions in manufacturing and engineering. He was recruited to General Electric, eventually heading up all semiconductor operations there. In 1985, he became president and COO of LSI Logic, joining his old friend, Wilf Corrigan. And in 1992, he became CEO of Exar, a mixed signal semiconductor supplier. A transcript is available here.

KK Yawata is a respected Japanese semiconductor executive. In this 2007 interview, he tells of his grammar school introduction to the power of electronics, his decision in college to pursue the physics and manufacture of transistors; and later integrated circuits. In his career at NEC, he rose to head-up NEC Electronics, USA. There he did the unthinkable, in 1984, he left NEC to start LSI Logic KK, a Japanese ASIC manufacture and partner of LSI Logic Corp. of California. After 10 years as CEO of the Japanese ASIC company, and two years as head of Applied Materials Japan, he semi-retired to become an advisor and an angel to young Japanese entrepreneurs. A transcript is available here.

Albert Yu

Albert Yu obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and began his career at Fairchild Semiconductor's R&D facility in the Stanford Industrial Park. He was later recruited to Intel by Andy Grove, where he remained for a distinguished thirty-year tenure. In this 2005 interview, he recounts how as Senior Vice President, he oversaw the development of the 386, 486 and many of the Pentium chips, as well as the revolutionary Itanium. A transcript is available here.

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