Interview with Don Brooks, 2000 February 08
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Don Brooks, former Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments and President and CEO of Fairchild Industries, discusses his experiences in semiconductor manufacturing. 00:00:00 Interviewer introduces Brooks and his overall career. 00:01:00 Discussion of going to school at SMU in a co-op program with Texas Instruments (TI), and his experience working in fabs (semiconductor fabrication plant) and with Jack Kilby. 00:05:10 Discusses TI’s attempt to vertically integrate while horizontally expanding the product line, and Intel's departure from the DRAM business. 00:11:06 Discusses management at TI and leaving Texas Instruments to be President at Fairchild. 00:15:37 Discusses the demise of Fairchild, sale to Schlumberger, subsequent sale to National, and the Fujitsu proposed merger. 00:27:28 Discusses his upbringing and how he came to work at TI. 00:31:35 Discusses his work in venture capital, becoming the President of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and the context for foundry business and product engineering in the semiconductor industry. 00:37:35 Discusses Morris Chang, the politics of being president at TSMC, and Europe, the U.S., and Taiwan’s cultural differences in the semiconductor industry. 00:47:15 Discussion of the lifetime of fabs, the cost of equipment, and profit sharing. 00:57:20 Discusses moving back to the US, working at UMC on the Board of Directors, and focusing on his work in venture capital. Interviewed by Rob Walker, February 8, 2000, Sunnyvale, California.
Description
| Type of resource | moving image |
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| Date created | February 8, 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | reformatted digital |
| Sound content | Sound |
| Color content | Color |
| Broadcast standard | NTSC |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Brooks, Donald |
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Subjects
| Subject | Texas Instruments Incorporated |
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| Subject | Fairchild (Firm) |
| Subject | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan ji ti dian lu zhi zao gu fen you xian gong si) |
| Subject | United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) |
| Subject | Semiconductors |
| Subject | Venture Capital |
| Subject | Foundries |
| Genre | Filmed interviews |
Bibliographic information
| Note | Reformatted by Stanford University Libraries 2017-2018. |
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| Source ID | m0741_brooks_2000-02-08 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cj789gh7170 |
| Location | M0741 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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Collection
Silicon Genesis : oral history interviews of Silicon Valley scientists, 1995-2024
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