Posted by admin on January 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm | Categorized as AMD, Backdating, Intersil, Maxim Integrated, Semiconductor industry | Tagged as Backdating, Fairchild Semiconductor, Jack Gifford, Maxim Integrated, Semiconductor industry
John Gifford, who founded analog chip maker Maxim Integrated Products and served as its chief executive until his retirement in 2007, passed away Sunday of an apparent heart attack, according to a company press release distributed Monday.
Gifford was born in 1941 and grew up in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he worked for Fairchild Semiconductor, first in sales in L.A. and later in marketing in Silicon Valley.
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Posted by admin on August 14th, 2008 at 11:08 am | Categorized as Semiconductor industry | Tagged as C. Lester Hogan, Fairchild Semiconductor, Integrated Circuits, Intel, Obituaries
C. Lester Hogan, whose move to the legendary Fairchild Camera & Instrument from Motorola with eight of its senior executives (dubbed “Hogan’s Heros” by some) resulted in Motorola (unsuccessfully) suing Fairchild for theft of trade secrets, died Tuesday, according to his daughter Cheryl Lee Lea Hogan, who shares his initials. He was 88.
The former Fairchild president and Harvard professor began his professional career at Read the rest of this entry »
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