The three remained lifelong friends. During this time, Jean Hoerni and Bob Noyce developed the planar process and the integrated circuit at Fairchild. At Fairchild, Sporck was responsible for ...

Hall had been the protégé of famed Silicon Valley founder Jean Hoerni after they’d worked together at Teledyne, building a radiation-hardened computer for the SR-71 Blackbird. Hoerni was one ...

The planar transistor, introduced by Jean Hoerni in 1960, utilized an oxide layer for passivation, further advancing transistor technology. 1,2 While the transistor was a significant leap forward, ...

In Australia, women have been at the forefront of technological innovation as well. In the 1960s, Jean Hoerni, an Australian-born physicist, invented the planar process, a crucial technique for ...

By 1968, all eight had moved on again, starting Intel Corp., among other ventures. One of the eight, Jean Hoerni, launched more than a dozen startups in subsequent years, as political scientist ...

Shockley moved to Palo Alto in 1956 and started Shockley Semiconductor; later the key employees of that firm left to create Fairchild Semiconductor (where Robert Noyce and Jean Hoerni created the ...

He loses. And note that out of that group of eight who left Shockley, all but Moore were new to California, and two were international immigrants, including Jean Hoerni who devises the process ...

Shortly after, Swiss physicist Jean Hoerni created a revolutionary planar process which transformed the manufacturing process of transistors from a semi-handcrafted operation to a high-volume ...

The personal computing business as we know it owes itself to an environment of enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and happenstance. Before PCs, the mainframe and minicomputer business model was formed ...

But Future Horizons’ president and CEO Malcolm Penn likes to point out that Jean Hoerni’s work, filed two months earlier, provided the framework for Fairchild’s semiconductor business to take off and ...