Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman ...

With William Shockley's difficult managerial style, working at Shockley Semiconductor became increasingly difficult for the researchers there. In May of 1957, just over a year after the company ...

Also in 1939, William Hewlett and Dave Packard founded ... In 1956, Shockley left Bell and founded his own company — Shockley Semiconductor Labs. It was the first company to make transistors ...

But Stanford grads William Hewlett and Dave Packard ... was proper credit for the invention of the transistor, Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Labs, the first-ever company to make ...