# Charlie Sporck American semiconductor executive who left [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]] to run [[wiki/National Semiconductor|National Semiconductor]]. Sporck is one of the [[wiki/Fairchildren|Fairchildren]] — executives who departed Fairchild to lead or found other semiconductor companies, extending the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] genealogy through the Shockley-Fairchild lineage. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].