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===Fairchild Semiconductor===
In 1957, the company was approached by members of the "[[traitorous eight]]" to rescue the group from the authoritarian regime of [[William Shockley]]. With help from [[Arthur Rock]] Sherman Fairchild agreed to provide the [[venture capital]] to launch a division of Fairchild called [[Fairchild Semiconductor]], from which would spawn dozens of semiconductors and [[Silicon Valley]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile - Entrepreneurship - Harvard Business School |url=https://entrepreneurship.hbs.edu/founders/Pages/profile.aspx?num=24 |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=entrepreneurship.hbs.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=School |first=Stanford Law |title=Legal Matters: Arthur Rock on the Early Venture Capital Decisions That Sparked Decades of Innovation |url=https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/legal-matters-arthur-rock-on-the-early-venture-capital-decisions-that-sparked-decades-of-innovation/ |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=Stanford Law School |date=5 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1960, two years after [[Emerson Radio]] had acquired DuMont's TV manufacturing division (in 1958), Fairchild acquired the remnants of [[DuMont Laboratories|Allen B. DuMont Laboratories]] (oscillograph & cathode-ray tube manufacturing), as well as large interest in Società Generale Semiconduttori, an Italian semiconductor producer. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, it acquired several companies in various industries: printing, sensors and magnetic heads, precision optical and photographic equipment, water quality monitoring equipment, and precision molding equipment.

Its corporate headquarters were in [[Syosset, New York]], which were later moved to [[Mountain View, California]] when [[Lester Hogan]] assumed control of [[Fairchild Semiconductor]].