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Type

Text

Title

Last (Jay) Oral History

Contributor

Addison, Craig, Editor

Addison, Craig, Interviewer

Last, Jay, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2007-09-15

Place of Publication

Mountain View, Calif.

Extent

36 p.

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

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102658211