Fairchild Semiconductor® Receives Best Product Award from China's AET Magazine for FAB2200 Audio Subsystem

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 20, 2011 – Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has received a Best Product Award from Application of Electronic Technique (AET), a leading journal for the electronics industry in China. The award, made in the Analog Devices category, was for Fairchild's FAB2200, an audio subsystem with stereo Class-G headphone amplifier and 1.2W Class-D mono speaker amplifier.

The winners of this year’s awards were selected by the readers of AET. AET has some 200,000 registered readers, and voting took place over a three-month period, both in print and online.

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Fairchild Semiconductor's PWM Controller with mWSaver™ Technology Voted a Leading Product by EDN China

SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 14, 2011 – The FAN302HL PWM controller, from Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been voted a Leading Product in the Power Devices and Modules category in EDN China's Innovation Awards 2011. This is the seventh consecutive year that Fairchild has received an EDN China Innovation Award.

The EDN China Innovation Awards occur annually and are based on the votes of more than 400,000 registered online users of the publication. These registered users comprise a large body of engineers and design specialists within the industry in Greater China. Award winners can be confident that the selection of their products is based on independent, professional opinion well qualified to recognize and reward true innovation.

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Fairchild Semiconductor an EPC Top-10 DC-DC Power Products Award Winner with FAN5400

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been named a winner in the annual Top-10 DC-DC Power Product Awards, hosted by Electronic Products China (EPC). This is the seventh time Fairchild has received this prestigious award, after submitting its FAN5400 USB-Compliant Li-Ion Battery Switching Charger for consideration by the panel of judges.

"It's a great honor to receive the EPC Top-10 DC-DC Power Products Award," said Frank Ma, Director of Mobile Sales and Marketing, Asia Pacific. "Fairchild is an innovator in the mobile market, combining silicon IP building blocks and system-level expertise to develop solutions like the FAN5400 that enable mobile manufacturers to quickly customize their designs, and meet their end-customer's needs."

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Fairchild Semiconductor Wins EEPW Power Products Award for Innovation

Fairchild Semiconductor has received a prestigious award for innovation from Electronic Engineering and Product World (EEPW), one of China's key electronics design publications, in the magazine's annual Power Products Awards.

The FAN5362 received a Best Innovation Product of the Year Award 2011 in the highly competitive DC-DC Conversion category. The award was presented to Fairchild at the EEPW Power Products Awards event ceremony, held on 18 May in Shenzhen.

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Ultra FRFET™ MOSFETS Win ACE Power Product of the Year Award in China

Fairchild Semiconductor has been awarded a Product of the Year award by EE Times China in the magazine's Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards 2011. The Ultra FRFET™ family of MOSFETS from Fairchild triumphed in the Power category of this prestigious industry award.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Application of Electronic Techniques (AET) China Outstanding Product Award

Fairchild Semiconductor has received an outstanding product award in the 2010 Application of Electronic Technique China (AET) Top Product Awards. The FSEZ1307 Primary Side Regulation (PSR) pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller with integrated MOSFET received the award in the Analog Device category.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Wins ECN's 2010 Reader's Choice Tech Awards

Fairchild Semiconductor has won ECN's 2010 Reader's Choice Tech Awards in the Passive & Discrete Devices category. Fairchild's FDMC7660, a 30V N-Channel PowerTrench® MOSFET, is produced using Fairchild's PowerTrench® process, which has been designed to minimize the on-state resistance.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Wins Elektra's Power Systems Product of the Year Award

Fairchild Semiconductor has won the Power Systems Product of the Year Award at the annual Elektra Awards. Fairchild's FSA9280A USB detection switch took the top honor in the Power Systems category, which judged entrants on power module and power supply innovations from the last 12 months, including new architectures, use of materials and packaging.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Earns Sixth Electronic Products China Top-10 DC-DC Product Award

Fairchild Semiconductor has been named a winner in Electronic Product's China(EPC) annual Top-10 DC-DC Power Product Awards 2010. This is the sixth time Fairchild has received this prestigious award.

This year, Fairchild featured the FDMC7570S 25V MOSFET family. The FDMC7570S enables thinner, lighter and more compact power supply solutions, while continuing to deliver high efficiency and excellent thermal enhancements.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Celestica's 2009 Total Cost of Ownership Supplier Award

Fairchild Semiconductor has been awarded a 2009 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOOTM) Supplier Award from Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions. The awards program recognizes suppliers that support Celestica's TCOO sourcing strategy to provide its customers with the best possible supply chain solution for their products.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Wins Two EEPW Power Products Awards for Innovation

The FAN9612 boundary-conduction mode (BCM) interleaving power factor correction (PFC) controller received a Best Innovative Award in the power management category. While the FDMS7605, the industry's first sub-one mOhm 30V MOSFET in a Power 56 package, also picked up a Best Innovative Award, in the highly competitive power component category.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Strategic Supplier Award from Power One

Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, recently received a Strategic Supplier Award from Power One, a leader in digital power technology (DPT) and a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions.

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High Performance Optocoupler Wins Product of the Year Award from EN-Genius

Fairchild Semiconductor's high performance optocoupler, the FOD8001, has received an EN-Genius Network 2009 'Product of the Year' award for "Best New Optocoupler". With the FOD8001, system engineers are able to design a strong industrial fieldbus network with low transmission error rates, low system failure rates and proven reliability over an extended period of time.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Wins EDN China's Leading Product Innovation Award for Fifth Year in a Row

Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance products that enable energy efficiency, has been awarded Leading Product status in the highly respected Electronic Design News China (EDNC) Innovation Awards 2009. Fairchild's FAN9612, a boundary-conduction mode (BCM) interleaving power factor correction (PFC) controller, was selected as a Leading Product in the highly competitive Power Device and Module category.

Fairchild Semiconductor Wins Prestigious "GreenPower Leadership Awards" Competition

Fairchild's article titled "Solar Power Shines" by Alfred Hesener was announced the overall winner at Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) Europe Exhibition & Conference. The monetary award for this article will be donated to the Institute of Robotics at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. The University conducts research on motion control solutions.

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Fairchild Semiconductor's Buck Regulator Wins EDN's 19th Annual Innovation Award for Power ICs

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that enable energy efficiency, has won the EDN 19th Annual Innovation Award for their FAN5355 Buck converter in the category of Power ICs: General Converters.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Green FPS™ Power Switch Wins EDAW-NEC's Best Application Award

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that enable energy efficiency, was awarded a 2008 Power Products Award for its FSFR-series in the category of Best Application Award in Power Control ICs. The FSFR2100 features a zero voltage switching (ZVS) technique that dramatically reduces switching losses in MOSFETs and rectifiers.

Fairchild Semiconductor's High-Voltage Gate Driver Wins Product of the Year Award from EN-Genius Network

Fairchild Semiconductor's (NYSE: FCS) high-voltage gate driver, the FAN7387, was awarded  EN-Genius Network's 2008 "Product of the Year" award for "Best Innovation in Gate Drivers."

Fairchild Semiconductor Wins EDN China's Leading Products Innovation Award for Fourth Year in a Row

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that enable energy efficiency, has received a product innovation award in the prestigious EDN China Innovation Awards for 2008. Fairchild's FAN5355 digitally programmable Buck regulator was chosen as a leading product in the competitive Analog & Mixed Signal ICs category.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Green FPS™ Power Switch Wins E-Legacy Award

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that drive energy-efficiency, was awarded the E-Legacy Award for its highly integrated Green FPS power switch. In the "Contribution to Sustainability" category, Fairchild Semiconductor's FSFR2100 was recognized for its innovative approach to conserving power and the role it plays in preserving the environment.

Fairchild Semiconductor Wins EPC's Top-10 DC-DC Product Award for Fifth Year in a Row

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance products that enable energy-efficiency, has been named a winner in Electronic Product China's Top-10 DC-DC Power Product Awards 2008, for the fifth year in a row.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Buck Converter, Green FPS™ Power Switch and Power SPM™ Module are Finalists in Golden Mousetrap Awards

Fairchild Semiconductor's (NYSE: FCS) buck converter, Green FPS™ power switch and Power-SPM™ module were selected as best product finalists in the 2008 Golden Mousetrap Awards sponsored by Design News magazine.

Green FPS™ Switch Wins a Silver Medal as One of the Top Greenest Solutions by SemiApps.com

Fairchild Semiconductor's highly integrated Green FPS power switch, the FSFR2100, received a silver medal for being one of the best IC solutions for energy conservation. This Green Apps contest showcases the unique and powerful contributions of semiconductor solutions for energy conservation. 600 engineers voted on the potential "green impact" of solutions entered in the contest by semiconductor manufacturers. Readers said that Fairchild's Green FPS power switch has "potential to save substantial amounts of energy" and shows the in-roads Fairchild is making in enabling green applications.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Ultra Low Power FIN324C µSerDes™ Serializer/Deserializer Receives Best Product Award from Portable Design China

The Award Further Endorses Fairchild's Commitment to Power Efficiency for Emerging Technologies in China such as 3G (TD-SCDMA)

Fairchild Semiconductor has received a Best Product Award from the readers of Portable Design China (PDC), a key industry publication, in its Portable Power Management Devices Readers Survey 2008.The award winning ultra low power FIN324C μSerDes™ is an ultra-compact serializer/deserializer designed for parallel interconnects reducing flex cable size, power consumption and electromagnetic interference (EMI) in cellular phones and small display applications.

Fairchild Semiconductor's TinyBuck™ DC – DC Buck Regulator, Wins EDAW-Nikkei Electronics China's "Best Innovative Product Award" for 2007

FAN2106 is the Industry's Smallest, Fully Integrated 6A, 24V-input Synchronous Buck Regulator

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), the leading global supplier of high performance products that drive energy-efficiency, has received a leading product award in the prestigious "Power Device Product Awards 2007" from Electronic Design & Application World – Nikkei Electronics China (EDAW – NEC). Fairchild's FAN2106 was chosen as a winner in the highly competitive "Best Innovative DC-DC Converter Product 2007." This TinyBuck product is the first in a new series of all-in-one regulators, offering up to 95 percent efficiency and improving system thermal performance while simplifying designs.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Green FPS™ e-Series™ Products Win China's Electronic Engineering Product World Editor's Choice Award

Highly Energy-Efficient Fairchild Power Switches (Green FPS™) Recognized in "Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Marketing Application" Category

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) has received a leading product award in EEPW's prestigious Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Editors' Choice Awards 2007. Fairchild's Green FPS e-Series was chosen as a winner in the highly competitive "Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Marketing Application" category, clearly demonstrating the success of these products in China.

Fairchild Semiconductor's Green FPS^TM Power Switch was Selected as the "Best New Application-Specific IC" by SemiApps

Fairchild Semiconductor's (NYSE: FCS) Green FPS power switch, the FSFR2100, was voted February's most popular application-specific IC on semiapps.com. This highly integrated power switch increases power efficiency and system reliability, and reduces valuable design time in resonant converter designs such as telecom power, high-end audio amplifiers, large-size laser printers and LCD and PDP TV power supplies.

The FSFR2100 features a zero voltage switching (ZVS) technique that dramatically reduces switching losses in MOSFETs and rectifiers. With this technique, this FPS switch can handle up to 200W without a heat sink and up to 450W with a heat sink. Compared to conventional hard-switch converter topologies, efficiency is improved by 10 percent and for applications such as PDP-TVs, efficiency reaches 97 percent. An additional advantage of the ZVS technique is the dramatically reduced switching noise – at least 5dB – compared to hard switching techniques. Offering burst operation function, the FSFR2100 brings standby power consumption below 1Watt to easily achieve the industry's 1 Watt Initiative.

Fairchild's Green FPS switches offer designers the advantage of PWM IC and MOSFET integration along with high efficiency and reliability in an all-in-one solution, meeting demanding energy regulations affecting today's power supply market. Using a proprietary valley switching technique, these products provide the highest levels of efficiency to meet standards as specified by the California Energy Commission (CEC), EU Code of Conduct and Group for Energy Efficient Appliances (GEEA).

During the month of February, Fairchild's FSFR2100 received the best on-line posting by SemiApps readers for application-specific ICs on Heart's SemiApps site.

Motion-SPM™ and USB Switch Earn "Product of the Year" Awards from EN-Genius Network

Fairchild Semiconductor's FSBB30CH60B Motion-SPM won "Best Development in Power Modules" and the FSUSB30 USB Switch won the "Most Innovative USB Product" from EN-Genius Network. The FSBB30CH60B is a highly efficient and highly integrated power module for motion control. Integrating three fully tested HVICs, one LVIC, six NPT IGBTs, six FRDs and three bootstrap diodes into a compact 44mm X 26.8mm Mini-DIP package, these Motion-SPM devices offer superior inverter-based control for energy-efficient 3-phase motors. They are ideal for home appliances and industrial motors up to 3kW.

Synchronous Buck Converter Named to EDN's Hot 100 Products of 2007

The FAN5350 has been named a Hot 100 Product of 2007 by EDN Magazine in the power semiconductors and IC category. This revolutionary 3MHz/600mA DC/DC synchronous buck converter features 16µA quiescent current, 20mV transient response and low-voltage ripple. The FAN5350 is designed to power DSP core processors, application processors and I/O interfaces, and utilizes Fairchild's proprietary new ultra-fast architecture specifically designed to simultaneously provide industry-leading quiescent current and transient-response performance. This high-performance, compact converter enables designers to meet next-generation load requirements while preserving battery life and saving board space in cell phones, media players, GPS devices, Bluetooth headsets and other single-cell 2.7V to 5.5V lithium-ion-powered portable applications.

Three Devices Named Ultimate Products by EETimes

Fairchild's single-bit, bi-directional translator, FET plus driver module and the industry's first SD multiplexer were selected as top products in the power and logic categories in the quarterly EETimes and eeProductCenter Ultimate Products Survey.

In the Power category, Fairchild's FDMF6700, a fully optimized and integrated FET plus driver power stage solution in ultra-compact 6mm x 6mm MLP packaging, ranked four out of ten in technical significance. This product targets space-constrained applications such as small-form-factor desktops, media center PCs, ultra-dense servers, blade servers, advanced gaming systems, graphic cards, networking and telecom equipment and other DC-DC applications.  In the Logic and Programmable Logic category, two of Fairchild's products were chosen as best of the best, the FXLH1T45 and the FSSD06.

Fairchild Wins Two EDN China Leading Products Innovation Awards for the Third Year in a Row

Fairchild Semiconductor has received two leading products accolades in the prestigious EDN China Innovation Awards 2007. Fairchild's FAN2106 TinyBuck™ DC-DC buck regulator was chosen as a leading product in the competitive Analog & Mixed Signal ICs category, while the FXL2TD245 in MicroPak™ dual-supply bi-directional translator was successful in the Power Devices & Module category.

Repeat Winner for Top 10 DC-DC Product Awards

Fairchild Semiconductor has once again been named a winner in Electronic Product China's Top 10 DC-DC 2007 product awards. The judging panel selected Fairchild's FDMF8700 fully optimized, integrated 12V driver plus MOSFET power stage solution as a winner. Fairchild's 30V synchronous buck converter chip set, FDS6298 and FDS6299S won the same award in 2006.

Fairchild Receives EDAW's 2006 Best Product Award in the Power Device Category

Fairchild Semiconductor's PFC-SPM products received a "Power Device Product Award 2006" from Electronic Design & Application World-Nikkei Electronics China (EDAW-NEC). Fairchild's PFC-SPM devices are designed for full-switching power factor correction (PFC) in motor drive applications in the 3-6kW power range and offer an energy-efficient, compact solution.

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Fairchild Wins Two EDN China Leading Products Innovation Awards, Second Year in a Row

Fairchild Semiconductor announced that the company received two leading products accolades in the prestigious EDN China Innovation Awards 2006. Fairchild's FMS6151 video filter/driver was a leading product in the competitive Analog & Mixed Signal ICs category, while the FPDB20PH60 series SPM™ was a leading product in the Power Devices & Module category.

Fairchild Named a Winner of EP China's 2006 Top 10

Fairchild Semiconductor has been named a winner in Electronic Product China's Top 10 DC - DC 2006 product awards. The 30V synchronous buck converter chip set, FDS6298 and FDS6299S was designed specifically to optimize efficiency and space in notebook computers using the latest Intel Mobile Voltage Positioning (IMVP) specifications.

µSerDes™ Technology Nominated for EDN Innovation Award

Fairchild Semiconductor's µSerDes™ solution targeting ultra-portable designs has been named a finalist in this year's EDN Innovator/Innovation Awards competition. These industry's smallest packaged, lowest EMI and lowest power serialization/deserialization devices dramatically reduce system size in cell phones and other ultra-portables while speeding time-to-market.

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Fairchild Wins Another analogZONE Product of the Year Award

Fairchild Semiconductor announced another of the company's analog products has been chosen by analogZONE as the best in its category. Selected by the editors, the highly-integrated FMS6501 Video Switch joins Fairchild's RMPA2265 RF Power Amplifier Module, which was announced as a winner earlier in 2005. AnalogZONE calls Fairchild's video switch "an innovative product" and goes on to say that "With its effective support of virtually any worldwide video standard, the FMS6501 will get a lot of design wins in places where discrete solutions are currently in use in a wide variety of current and future consumer products."

IntelliMAX™ Wins EDN China Innovation Award

Fairchild Semiconductor's IntelliMAX™, integrated low-power load switches targeting portable battery-powered applications, have been awarded Leading Product status in the power device and module segment of EDN China's first Innovation Awards.

Fairchild Named a Winner of EP China's 2005 Top 10 DC-DC Product Awards

Fairchild Semiconductor's 1.5A synchronous DC-DC buck regulators, the FAN2011 and FAN2012, have won a prestigious product award in China. Named a winner in Electronic Product China's Top 10 DC- DC 2005 awards, these "all-in-one" buck converters offer the industry's best combination of efficiency, performance, power density and size for set top boxes, hard disk drives, point-of-load (POL) power and communications equipment. In these applications, LDOs have typically been used. With space-sensitive applications, DC-DC regulators are increasingly being used in this application space.

Complementary MOSFET Device Named "Ultimate Product" by EETimes

Fairchild Semiconductor's FDC6020C was named an "Ultimate Product" by the editors and readers of EETimes and eeProductCenter . Introduced by Fairchild in December 2004, the FDC6020C is the smallest complementary MOSFET solution for point-of-load (POL) converter designs that deliver 1 amp continuous current.