Fairchild Semiconductor

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1.	The Traitorous Eight 01:51	buy track
2.	Moore Versus Noyce 02:48	buy track
3.	Ten Dollars 01:08	buy track
4.	We Won't Even Have To Move 01:49	buy track
5.	Hoerni's Planar Process 03:03	buy track
6.	The Undersigned 02:16	buy track
7.	There's Nothing We Can't Do 02:08	buy track
8.	Fairchild Semiconductor 02:50	buy track
9.	Silicon Not Germanium 02:48	buy track
10.	The 741 Will Do Okay 02:25	buy track
11.	We Want Your I.C. for Apollo 01:53	buy track
12.	The Fairchildren 02:32	buy track
13.	We Started It All 04:12	buy track
14.	The Traitorous Eight (Reprise) 02:40	buy track

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FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR

This album is an extreme exercise in manifestation or perhaps overly-optimistic multiverse manipulation.

We do not live in a universe where there's a lavish TV series about Fairchild Semiconductor. But we *should* and I want to do my utmost to make that universe this one.

Having spent hours researching various magazine articles, citations and physics way over my head, I'm more than a little obsessed by Fairchild and the long shadow that one company and all its Fairchildren cast over our lives today.

I’m the generation that lived through the '80s tech revolution. I wasn't clever enough to be a coder (no maths!) but I learned a bit of assembly language, wrote a few terrible ASCII-based games, the usual for a geeky kid of my generation. This is when I first started to be interested in processors, noticing that some home computers used something called a ‘6502’ and others a ‘Z80.’ Back then, I had no idea that one tech company had so influenced computer history, from developing the first monolithic integrated circuit to guiding us to the Moon.

I would love this album to inspire a real TV series that explored the personalities *and* the science of those times. Ideally, it would be a co-production between, say, Netflix and the BBC. There would be a one-hour dramatic show, telling the story and then a follow-up one-hour behind-the-science episode. I want people to know the fascinating history behind the last great industrial revolution, without which today’s inter-connected, inter-dependent world would be impossible.

Four transistors on the first ever monolithic IC in 1960, sixteen thousand million on Apple's M1 chip in 2020. I want to hear that story!

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released May 19, 2021

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White Town Derby, UK

The "band" White Town consists of Jyoti Mishra, who writes and records the music almost entirely on his own, with occasional help from other musicians. Although best known for the fluke 1997 hit "Your Woman," White Town's mix of musical, political, and social influences makes Mishra one of the more intriguing, although frustratingly inconsistent, musicians in '90s indie pop. - Stewart Mason, AMG ... more

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