The company's poor management soon led eight of its brightest engineers to strike out on their own. These eight, who Shockley came to refer to as "the eight traitors," founded Fairchild Semiconductors. In 1968, three of the "traitors" --Robert Noyce (who invented the integrated circuit), Gordon E. Moore, and Andy Grove--left Fairchild to found Intel.
但蕭克利並不是一位成功的經營者，他雇用的一群出色工程師其中 8 人集體離職，創立快捷半導體公司；1968 年 8 人元老中的諾依斯（Robert Noyce，IC 發明人）、摩爾、葛洛夫又出來創立英特爾公司，帶動了矽谷半導體業開枝散葉。