# Traitorous Eight The eight researchers who defected from [[wiki/Shockley Semiconductor|Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]] in 1957 to found [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]]: [[wiki/Robert Noyce|Robert Noyce]], [[wiki/Gordon Moore|Gordon Moore]], Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, [[wiki/Eugene Kleiner|Eugene Kleiner]], Jay Last, and Sheldon Roberts. Their departure triggered the semiconductor industry's migration to [[wiki/Silicon Valley|Silicon Valley]] and seeded the [[wiki/Fairchildren|Fairchildren]] ecosystem of over 130 successor companies. The genealogy traces back through Shockley to [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]], as mapped in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].