How Fairchild Made the Microchip Practical - and Changed Silicon Valley

A hundred expensive transistors exposed the weakness that a laboratory breakthrough could not hide. Follow the breakaway team from a contaminated silicon surface to the planar process, the practical microchip, and the network of people who carried Fairchild’s hard-won methods into Silicon Valley’s next generation. The creator of this video does not claim ownership of third-party materials featured in it. Rights remain with their respective owners.