Fairchild Semiconductor Opens Global Power Resource(TM) Design Center in South America to Address Critical Markets
June 05 2006 - 4:26PM
Business Wire
Brazil Design Center to assist customers in the region by offering
on-site design solutions for their automotive, lighting, motor
drive, telecom and consumer electronics applications Fairchild
Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) has expanded its Global Power
Resource(TM) design centers to nine worldwide with the addition of
a facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This new design center responds to
the burgeoning high-technology markets in South America. Fairchild
is focusing on the South American region, projected by WSTS to have
a 14 percent growth rate in 2006 and nearly 10 percent in 2007, to
support its manufacturing customers in the consumer electronic and
appliance, lighting, automotive and telecom markets. The design
center is staffed by electrical engineers with extensive design
expertise and a keen understanding of the application requirements
for more compact, energy-efficient, high functionality electronic
applications. "Fairchild's design center in Brazil, as well as all
of the company's centers worldwide, are able to respond to our
customers' demands for ready-made designs that they can take to
market as quickly as possible," said Kevin Parmenter, senior
director, Field Applications Engineering, Americas. "We are
equipped to offer the top electronics manufacturers in the region
Fairchild's power optimizing design expertise backed by a
leading-edge product portfolio of analog, power discrete and
standard products whose breadth-and-depth is unparalleled in the
industry." "With energy at a premium, coupled with the emergence of
new standards for energy efficiency, it's critically important that
our customers have access to power systems experts who can deliver
innovative techniques and products to confront these challenges,"
said Carlos Alvarez, regional manager, Latin America. As The Power
Franchise(R), Fairchild is uniquely equipped to assist application
engineers who access our Brazil Design Center, in the optimization
of system power in even their most demanding applications."
Fairchild has eight other design centers in Germany, Korea, Taiwan,
China and the US. These centers are part of the company's Global
Power Resource initiative, offering not only system power design
but also online design tools, evaluation boards, tutorials and
joint research and development labs. To enhance and broaden support
for its customers, Fairchild has integrated resources on its
website with design, selection and educational tools for customers
to access and optimize designs in real time. The goal of the Global
Power Resource is to solve manufacturers' design challenges while
helping them speed their product's time-to-market. For more
information about Fairchild's design centers, please go to
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/designcenter/. 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. Fairchild's
9,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog &
mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products.
Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.
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