Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available
integrated circuit (released shortly before the one from
Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of
Silicon Valley in the
1960s. The company currently employs approximately nine thousand people worldwide, with locations in
San Jose, California,
Salt Lake City, Utah,
Mountaintop, Pennsylvania,
Bucheon, South Korea,
Penang, Malaysia,
Suzhou, China, and
Cebu, Philippines among others. In
South Portland, Maine, the corporate headquarters is located about a third of a mile from the manufacturing plant.
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