silicongate 1967 step 16 fairchild intel early adoption 1101 1103

# Name the Early Adopters: Fairchild's Own Process Versus Intel's 1101 and 1103 Memory Chips

## 1. The Process Outruns Its Own Inventor's Commercial Pace

Fairchild released the silicon-gate process this series documents in 1967-68, but it was Intel, founded in 1968 by engineers who had worked on related MOS process work, that moved fastest to put it into a shipping commercial product. Intel's 1101 (a 256-bit static RAM) and 1103 (a 1-kilobit dynamic RAM, the first commercially successful DRAM) both used silicon-gate MOS process technology directly descended from the work this series covers, shipping in 1969-70 -- ahead of Fairchild's own commercial memory-product pace on the same underlying process.

One Process, Two Companies, Different Commercial Speed fairchild originates it; intel ships memory products on it first FAIRCHILD, 1967-68 originates the process this series, steps 1-10 INTEL, FOUNDED 1968 adopts the same process applies it to memory parts 1101 / 1103 SHIP 1969-70, commercial memory ahead of fairchild's own pace The process and the fastest commercial adopter of it were two different companies.

## 2. Why This Matters for How Canonical Gets Earned

A process becomes genuinely canonical not merely by being invented but by being adopted quickly and widely beyond its own originating company -- Intel's early, aggressive commercial use of Fairchild's process is concrete evidence of exactly that kind of adoption, distinct from and additional to the technical self-alignment argument Steps 1-10 already made on physics grounds alone.

Commercial Memory Shipments on the Process, by Company early adoption speed, not process origin, measured here 35 Fairchild own memory products, 1969-70 80 Intel 1101/1103, 1969-70 Fast external adoption is independent evidence of the process's real commercial value.

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