In 1962 Fairchild hired a Utah University PhD described as “very bright, young, mulish, unyielding, obstinate and persistent.” Conditions in the Fairchild lab at that time were lax in assigning specific duties and the PhD went his own way presenting, to the 1963 ISCC, a paper on a MOSFET logic technology which combined PMOS and ...

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