FCS Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. (MM)

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) introduces Smart Search, a web-based search engine that simultaneously searches multiple integrated databases on the company's website, providing design engineers easy access to new products, cross reference data, technical literature, obsolete products, application notes and other vital information. Other search mechanisms on the market today require keywords to be individually entered into various cross-reference and product information databases. Unlike this time-consuming, hit-and-miss process, Smart Search allows customers and other interested individuals to type keywords into one comprehensive search tool for fast, streamlined results including the top five parametrics, new product announcements and application-related products. "Smart Search is a customer-centric search engine, designed to provide instant access to key information, allowing design engineers to spend less time searching for information on products and more time designing," says Rick Whitcomb, senior manager, Marketing Technology. "Providing the right navigational tools to make our customers' jobs easier is imperative to Fairchild." Fairchild's Smart Search also provides a session-specific Bill of Material (BOM) functionality, allowing visitors to find and add products to a list that can be easily exported into a spreadsheet format and e-mailed. This functionality creates an easy way for customers to save, distribute and analyze the results of individual Bill of Materials. Smart Search can be accessed at www.fairchildsemi.com. For more information about Fairchild products and designer resources, please go to www.fairchildsemi.com. Smart Search is part of Fairchild's Global Power Resource(TM) -- a worldwide network of design labs, systems application experts, online design tools, evaluation boards and joint research and development labs. Fairchild is The Power Franchise(R) with the power expertise and design services to provide customers with solutions to optimize performance, streamline their power system designs and reduce time-to-market. Fairchild's global design centers are located in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, Korea and several locations in China, with the company planning to open six additional centers worldwide in 2005. About 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.