[WITHDRAWN DUPLICATE] Biography|Gordon Moore — see published collection 757

People tell the Shockley story as a quarrel about temperament. It was also a quarrel about what to make. In 1956 Moore joined Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory at 391 San Antonio Road, a rented shop where William Shockley meant to manufacture silicon transistors. Shockley redirected the group toward a four-layer diode. Eight of the younger researchers refused the detour: Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts. On 18 September 1957 they closed a deal with Fairchild Camera and Instrument. Each of the eight put in 500 dollars. Sherman Fairchild's firm put in about 1.3 million. The original Shockley building is gone. The address is now a rebuilt commercial site with IEEE milestone plaques and oversized semiconductor sculptures facing San Antonio Road. The walk from this pin to Fairchild's first building at 844 East Charleston Road is a little over a mile. That short distance is the turning point. Moore left a Nobel laureate's lab and entered the company that would make planar silicon a product. Photo: Dicklyon, 391 San Antonio Road in 2017, via Wikimedia Commons