Title:
Oral History of Jay Last

Date:
2007-04-25

Pages:
36 p.

Interviewer:
Addison, Craig; interviewer; editor
Last, Jay; interviewee

Abstract:
Jay Last worked at Shockley Semiconductor, was a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, and founded Amelco Semiconductor together with Jean Hoerni and Eugene Kleiner. In this oral history he describes his role at Fairchild in the early days of mesa and planar transistors, of leading the team that developed the first family of integrated circuits and his subsequent career at Teledyne.

Keywords:
Allison, Dave
Baldwin, Ed
Battey, Jim
Bay, Tom
Beckman, Arnold
Blank, Julie
Coyle, Bud
Enquall, Art
Fairchild, Sherman
Farina, Don
Fok, Sam
Grinich, Vic
Haas, Isy
Hoerni, Jean
Kattner, Lionel
Kelly, Mervin
Kilby, Jack
Kleiner, Gene
Kozmetsky, GeorgeLasch, Art
Last, Jay
Lehovec, Kurt
Lewis, Bob
Lojek, Bo
Moore, Gordon
Nall, Jim
Norman, Bob
Noyce, Bob
Riordan, Michael
Roberts, George
Roberts, Sheldon
Rock, Arthur
Shockley, Emmy
Shockley, William
Singleton, Henry
Sporck, Charlie
Amelco
Autonetics
Beckman Instruments
Bell Labs
Electroglas
Fairchild
Hayden Stone
Intel
Kodak
Pacific Semiconductors
Philco
Rheem
Signetics
Silicon Valley
Sprague
Tektronix
Teledyne
Texas Instruments (TI)
Transitron
Wescontransistor
semiconductor
step-and-repeat
four-layer diode
traitorous eight
Minuteman
Planar
MOS
boron
diffusion
isolation
integrated circuit
DCTL

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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