The senior staff of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory toasting their leader at a luncheon the day after the announcement of the Nobel Prize honoring the inventors of the transistor (John Bradeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley).  L-R: Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Victor Jones, and Shockley.  Smoot Horsley stands at far left;  Eugene Kleiner is in the immediate foreground, Robert Noyce is fourth from left, immediately behind Jones, Jay Last is at the far right.  Courtesy Intel  Corporation.  Taken from: http://www.aip.org/history/spr97/shockgrp.htm

An excellent history of the ill-fated Shockley enterprise and an account of its seminal role in the develop of semiconductor electronics may be found in the book   Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997). See also the article entitled "The Moses of Silicon Valley" in the December 1997 issue of Physics Today (Vol. 50, No. 12) and Chapter One from Crystal Fire.  See also A Brief History of Silicon Valley by Jim McCormick.

The oral history Gordon Moore gave to the Silicon Genesis project  (Stanford University Libraries) is quite insightful on the the "Shockley experience."

Leslie Berlin's marvelous biography on Bob Noyce, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, includes a insightful appraisal of the pivotal role of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in the history of Silicon Valley.