Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor is a leading global provider of semiconductor technology that powers the products and makes them more energy efficient. Fairchild continues to build on its rich history of innovation to address one of the greatest challenges-reducing wasted energy and improving efficiency in an increasingly power-hungry world. It has also been selected as one of China’s leading suppliers in the highly competitive discrete semiconductor category at China Market Electronics Component Manufacturer Awards(CMECMA). Besides, it was awarded “The 8th Best Foreign Corporation Award” and was ranked top out of the 173 foreign manufacturing companies.
Fairchild Semiconductor is a leader in the design and production of optoelectronics products, offering a broad range of package platforms, incorporating various combinations of input and output configurations. It has products including simple function optocouplers, high performance optocouplers, high-voltage optocouplers. In addition, it offers infrared components, photodetectors, transmissive and reflective opto-sensors, and customized products to meet specific design requirements.
Fairchild is The Power Franchise®, providing leading-edge silicon and packaging technologies, manufacturing strength and system expertise for consumer, communications, industrial, portable, computing and automotive systems. It will continue to work closely with leading electronic manufacturers to understand the power challenges of new platforms and develop innovation technologies that break new barriers in efficiency.
Fairchild is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as Fairchild Camera and Instrument (NYSE stock symbol FCI), it was a pioneer in transistor and integrated circuit manufacturing. After it was bought by Schlumberger and sold to National Semiconductor, Fairchild was spun out as an independent company again in 1997.
The company has locations in the US at San Jose, California; South Portland, Maine; West Jordan, Utah; Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and outside the US in Singapore; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines; among others. A design center has been launched in Pune, India.
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