Byline: Mark Boslet
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ During a rare public appearance last month, high-tech pioneer Gordon Moore looked back on a storied career that began when Silicon Valley was still rich with prune and apricot orchards.
"I had the opportunity to get in at the beginning, when the industry was just forming," Moore said of co-founding the seminal start-up Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. "It was a different era."
While the valley's orchards have given way to urban sprawl and high-tech campuses, the chip-making heritage Fairchild established continues, and the lessons of its founders and early employees remain as relevant as they were five decades ago. More than ...