[mgnn]

It's the cycle of life. Intel was founded by people leaving Fairchild, and that in turn was founded by the Traitorous Eight from Shockley.

The ecosystem is healing.

[dyauspitr]

Meh all that happened in an environment with a complete lack of competition. Now it just seems like East Asia will eat everyone’s lunch while the ecosystem is healing.

[akira2501]

> Meh all that happened in an environment with a complete lack of competition.

It was an insanely competitive environment. Shockley had the leg up due to being the literal inventor of the thing he was intending to manufacture and from getting an early investor to start his laboratory.

> Now it just seems like East Asia will eat everyone’s lunch while the ecosystem is healing.

They've got good labor prices but almost no legitimate IP.