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Title
Last (Jay T.) SEMI oral history interview
Contributor
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Addison, Craig, Editor
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Addison, Craig, Interviewer
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Last, Jay T., Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Date
2007-09-15
Place of Publication
Beverly Hills, California
Extent
36 p.
Copyright Holder
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)
Description
Jay Last worked at Shockley Semiconductor, was a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, and founded Amelco Semiconductor together with Jean Hoerni and Eugene Kleiner. In this oral history he describes his role at Fairchild in the early days of mesa and planar transistors, of leading the team that developed the first family of integrated circuits and his subsequent career at Teledyne.
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Subject
semiconductor history; Rock, Arthur; Shockley, Emmy; Shockley, William; Singleton, Henry; Sporck, Charlie; Amelco; Autonetics; Beckman Instruments; Bell Laboratories; Electroglas; Fairchild Semiconductor; Hayden Stone; Intel; Kodak; Pacific Semiconductors; Philco Corporation; Rheem; Signetics; Silicon Valley; Sprague; Tektronix; Teledyne; Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI); Transitron; Wescontransistor; Semiconductor industry--California--Santa Clara County--History; step-and-repeat; four-layer diode; traitorous eight; Minuteman; Planar; MOS; Boron; Diffusion; Isolation; integrated circuit; DCTL; Roberts, Sheldon; Allison, Dave; Baldwin, Ed; Battey, Jim; Bay, Tom; Beckman, Arnold; Blank, Julie; Coyle, Bud; Enquall, Art; Fairchild, Sherman; Farina, Don; Fok, Sam; Grinich, Vic; Haas, Isy; Hoerni, Jean; Kattner, Lionel; Kelly, Mervin; Kilby, Jack; Kleiner, Gene; Kozmetsky, George; Lasch, Art; Last, Jay; Lehovec, Kurt; Lewis, Bob; Lojek, Bo; Moore, Gordon; Nall, Jim; Norman, Robert; Noyce, Robert; Riordan, Michael; Roberts, George
Collection Title
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) oral histories and company videos
Accession Number
102658211
