FCS Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. (MM)

-- Center adding industrial and white goods motor control capabilities Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), today announced that its Global Power Resource(TM) power design and application lab in Europe is expanding to provide complete system power solutions for motion and motor control. Fairchild will invest in new equipment as well as motion and motor control engineers at its Furstenfeldbruck, Germany site. The center has already completed more than 50 successful system power designs in its first eighteen months, reducing part count requirements and increasing efficiency in customer applications. "Customers value the total power system designs we are able to give them and are seeking the same level of solutions in other areas such as two- and three-phase motor control, and motion control," said Ole-Petter Brusdal, Fairchild's vice president of Sales and Marketing, Europe. "These address industrial and consumer white goods applications - areas that are growing quickly in Europe. As The Power Franchise(R), our strategy is to constantly upgrade and extend the Global Power Resource design and application labs to meet the needs of our customers." To support the additional applications, Fairchild will significantly invest to increase staff levels by 15% and add new test instrumentation like additional three phase programmable power sources, power analyzers and electronic loads to support higher current levels and three-phase applications, including inverter drives. The expanded team will offer customers specific design experience in the motion and motor control domain. Fairchild's power design and application lab in Fuerstenfeldbruck is resourced with expertise and equipment targeted to provide comprehensive power design solutions for electronic applications in the principal European end markets - industrial, consumer and automotive. Led by Dr. Michael Weirich, a PhD engineering manager with significant power design experience, the center is supported by 16 highly qualified systems and applications engineers together with four component engineers. Able to turn around designs in as little as two weeks, the center provides customers with fully engineered solutions, including demo boards; detailed reports including information for 'Bill-of-Materials' (BOMs) and turnkey designs, providing CAD files that can be incorporated into their own designs; and application notes. It is one of six such centers operated by Fairchild, The Power Franchise, worldwide to develop complete system power solutions in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and display segments. Fairchild Semiconductor: Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) is the leading global supplier of high performance power products critical to today's leading electronic applications in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive segments. As The Power Franchise(R), Fairchild offers the industry's broadest portfolio of components that optimize system power through minimization, conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild's 9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.