Photos: Integrated circuit celebrates 50th birthday

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Moore (left) and Jay Last were two of the eight men who became known as the "Traitoruous Eight" after leaving Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. Fairchild became "the Google of its day," according to Leslie Berlin, Silicon Valley archivist for Stanford University.

May 9, 2009 1:01 PM PDT

Photo by: James Martin/CNET

| Caption by: James Martin

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