Fairchild Semiconductors
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Originally founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits. Schlumberger bought the firm in 1979 and sold it to National Semiconductor in 1987; Fairchild was spun off as an independent company again in 1997.
Fairchild Active ComponentsThe company has locations in the United States at San Jose, California; South Portland, Maine; West Jordan, Utah; Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. Outside the U.S. it operates locations in Singapore; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines; among others. A design center has been launched in Pune, India. Established in 1960, Fairchild opens a facility in South Portland, Maine for the manufacture, test and assembly of transistors for use in radios, oscilloscopes and other instrumentation. On September 19, 2016 ON Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. jointly announced that ON Semiconductor has successfully completed its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild. Products:
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Applications
- Automotive
- Cloud, Servers, Data Centers
- Computing and Storage
- Home Appliance and White Goods
- Industrial Automation
- Industrial Motion & Motor Control
- Lighting
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
- Medical
- Mobile Power
- Motion Tracking
- Networking & Gateway
- Portable Consumer
- Power Supply
- Smart Grid & Metering
- Smart Home & Home Entertainment
- Solar, Renewable, UPS
- Telecommunication Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Travel Adaptors & Power Banks
- Wearables
- Welding & Induction Heating