Fairchild Semiconductor's Global Power Resource(TM) Experts To Provide Insight into Today's Design Challenges at APEC 2006.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- Fairchild Semiconductor's (NYSE: FCS) power experts will offer techniques for developing power efficient designs and profile the leading edge products that make them possible at the 2006 Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), held March 19 - 23 in Dallas, Texas. Fairchild's booth #63 will be staffed by motor, lighting, DC/DC and AC/DC power experts from the Global Power Resource(TM) who will offer solutions to design and power application challenges.

"Semiconductor suppliers are increasingly playing a pivotal role in compliance with agency and governmental regulations from the viewpoint of power efficiency, in reducing standby power, reducing switching and conduction losses and power factor correction. At APEC 2006, Fairchild - The Power Franchise(R) - will pose methods of conforming to these regulations either through innovative products or topologies," says Claudia Innes, director of Corporate Marketing.

Fairchild technologists will present the following papers at the conference:

--"Application Specific 1200V Planar and Trench IGBTs," by Praveen Shenoy, Sampat Shekhawat, Bob Brockway;

--"Board Level Reliability Testing for Power Semiconductors in Extended Use Applications," by Dennis Lang;

--"Investigating Feed-Forward Mechanism in Current Mode Control," by Jason Guo;

--"A Single-Stage Power Converter for Large Screen LCD Back-Lighting," by Simon Oh;

--"Winning in China, Through Understanding Its Power Needs & Cultural Dynamics," Louise Merriman, Jeff Ju, Claudia Innes; and

--"A Constant Power Limit Feed-Forward Control Circuit for Fly Back Converters," by J. H. Choi, Fairchild Semiconductor, and J. Liu and H. Lee, Univ. of Texas at Dallas.

The Global Power Resource is an integral element of Fairchild's delivery of highly integrated products for the consumer, communication, industrial, computing and automotive market. The Global Power Resource encompasses a worldwide network of design centers, staffed with system design experts, who partner closely with customers to optimize and develop innovative designs. Additionally, Fairchild has implemented design, selection and educational tools into its web site (http://www.fairchildsemi.com/designcenter) to assist customers in the power optimization of their design at their convenience.

APEC, the Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, is the leading event worldwide for practicing power electronics professionals, focused on the practical and applied aspects of the power electronics business.

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.