Fairchild Camera and Instrument Co
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation of USA
of Potters Bar
1944 US company Fairchild Aviation changed its name to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Co
1957 Sherman Fairchild agreed to provide venture capital for a group of physicists who had been working under William Shockley, and who wanted to develop new semiconductor technology for mass production of transistors. This was incorporated as Fairchild Semiconductor, part of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company.
1960 Fairchild acquired one third of SGS, an Italian semiconductor manufacturer and a joint venture was formed, SGS-Fairchild, to exploit Fairchild's planar technology[1]
1978 Announced JV with GEC to build micro-electronics in Britain[2] - GEC-Fairchild
c.1979 Schlumberger acquired the company.
1980 Fairchild pulled out of its proposed JV with GEC to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Cheshire.[3]
1982 Part of Schlumberger