Fairchild today announced the appointment of Terry A. Klebe to the company's board of directors. Klebe was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Cooper Industries plc, a multinational industrial manufacturing company with 2010 revenues of $5.1 billion, from 2002 until announcing his retirement in February 2010. He continued to serve as vice chairman at Cooper through his retirement in April 2011. As CFO Klebe was the number two exe...

mWSaver™ Technology combines our most energy efficient process and circuit technologies for power adapter design into this unique group of components.

Fairchild will demonstrate industry-leading technologies for power supplies and motion control applications at PCIM Europe 2011, 17-19 May, in Hall 12, booth 601, in Nuremberg, Germany.

Today's challenging economic climate is driving the need for community involvement more now than ever before. Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) recognizes the need for corporate responsibility and is pleased to announce their three year sponsorship agreement with Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco. The company will participate in Habitat’s newest and most ambitious development to date in Greater San Francisco – a four-story, 36 cond...

Fairchild Semiconductor developed the FSA8008 audio jack detection and configuration switch as a one-chip audio jack detector and switch for 3- or 4-pole accessories.

Manufacturers of consumer electronics and home appliances need an offline switch-mode power supply solution that reduces external component count and increases reliability, while meeting or exceeding today’s stringent energy saving regulations.

Answering the need for increasing efficiencies and higher performance for semiconductor applications, Fairchild is extending its technology leadership capabilities with the acquisition of TranSiC, a Silicon Carbide (SiC) power transistor company.

Parallel data interfaces continue to be used by designers in many newer mobile phone and mobile internet device (MID) designs simply because they are the only interfaces available from the application processor.

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has been awarded a Product of the Year award by EE Times China in the magazine's Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards 2011.

Cell phone chargers typically sit plugged in and unused most of the time. Yet, they still draw power from the grid, wasting energy and the consumer’s money. The problem facing design engineers is clear – how can standby power be reduced in these devices, thereby saving energy, meeting government regulations and saving the consumer money?

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has received a Core Supplier Performance Award from Gree Electric Appliances, Inc., China's leading domestic and global air conditioner manufacturer.

In order to meet increased power efficiency demands and regulatory standards for desktop PCs, All-in-One (AIO) PCs and notebook adaptors, designers need secondary-side synchronous rectification (SR) controllers that can increase power efficiency while integrating more functions.

Les ingénieurs de conception travaillant sur des projets de communication industrielle ont besoin de transmettre des données haut débit sur le bus de terrain des communications sans prendre le risque d'endommager des contrôleurs sensibles, des ADC ou des capteurs. La solution actuelle est d'utiliser deux optocoupleurs mono-canal ou d'autres technologies comme le couplage magnétique ou capacitive. Mais le niveau voulu en terme d'isolation fia...

Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, has appointed Dan Kinzer, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Technology. Under Mr. Kinzer’s leadership, Fairchild will sharpen its focus on technical innovation to further advance the company’s advanced product offerings in power electronic and mobile applications.

Design engineers working with industrial communication designs need to transmit high speed data over the communication fieldbus without the risk of damaging sensitive controllers, ADCs or sensors. The current solution uses two single-channel optocouplers or other technology, like magnetic or capacitive coupling. But this does not provide the desired level of reliable isolation and immunity to EMI.

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.

Power engineers, especially those involved in All-In-One (AIO) PC power, Slim Pack PC adapters, LCD TV and LED lighting designs, require a dual switch flyback topology that provides the higher efficiency and increased energy savings required by government regulations – something that LLC or single flyback solutions cannot provide. Developed to answer this need, Fairchild Semiconductor’s FAN6920MR, an integrated critical mode PFC and quasi-res...

Design, system and platform engineers of consumer, industrial and computing applications need a drop-in, integrated solution that provide power load switching and advanced protection, while also saving board space and lowering overall costs. To address this need, Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) developed the AccuPower™ load switch series, the industry’s first 2.8V to 36V integrated load switches, intended to address the designer’s mid-v...

The traditional 3.5mm audio jack in mobile phones, smartphones, MP3 and personal media players is still the primary way for users to connect headsets for speaking as well as headphones for listening to music. To accommodate this efficiently, designers need a device that can detect and configure the audio jack for different accessories.

As DC-DC applications, such as power modules, telecommunications and servers, become more space-constrained, designers are looking for smaller devices to meet their design challenges. The thermal capability of these devices, however, is a concern.