The e-world is here. Or maybe it’s the i-world. Electronics. Information. They go hand-in-hand. How we finally choose to define the transformation of our world will depend on whether you define it by the electronics that make it happen or the information that it brings. The one certainty in this uncertain world is the proliferation of Fairchild Semiconductor’s technologies. If the e-world had a backbone, we’d be the vertebrae.
     The enabling power behind the silicon fabric of millions of motherboards and backplanes is the combination of analog, mixed signal, power, interface, logic, discrete and non-volatile memory technologies made by Fairchild. Think of them as tools. Want this specific function? Choose that specific technology. Need to create a function? We’ll design the silicon solution to make it happen.
     In the standards-driven world of semiconductors, Fairchild technologies allow designers to develop unique functionality from one system to another. Today’s design engineers are transforming the world. Fairchild’s multi-market technologies are their tools.
     Fairchild coined the term multi-market. It means that we offer a broad portfolio of semiconductor products delivering similar functionality to a multiple number of markets. Our products end up in uncountable applications ranging from consumer electronics, Internet hardware and wireless communications to information appliances and power supplies. We call it good business; you can think of it as diversifying our growth opportunities.
     Fairchild’s business objective has been clear from the start—to continue to be the world’s leading supplier of high-performance multi-market semiconductors to a planet hungry for smaller, faster and more efficient products. From cell phones, digital cameras, power supplies and global positioning systems to PCs, battery chargers, backplanes and servers, Fairchild’s semiconductors are there.