It鈥檚 hard to believe the Valley was once a vast orchard. For an account of
how it swapped farms for labs, see http://www.silvalonline.com/history.html.
William Shockley, one of the inventors of the transistor while at Bell
Laboratories, came to Palo Alto in the mid-1950s to set up the Shockley
Semiconductor Laboratory. Shockley鈥檚 bizarre management practices鈥攁nd his
belief in eugenics鈥攄id not endear him to his staff. And if Shockley had
had his way, the area might have become Germanium Valley鈥攈e believed it
was a better semiconducting material than silicon. However, a group of his more
silicon-oriented employees left the company to create Fairchild Semiconductor
(http://www.fairchildsemi.com/index.html) in Mountain View.
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