Fairchild Semiconductor's New Web Site Provides Engineers One-Click Access to Products, Applications and Design Tools.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) has launched a new web site delivering one-click access to dynamic, in-depth product, application and design tool information - providing designers self-service solutions to their power system design challenges. At www.fairchildsemi.com, users will find numerous capabilities including:

--Smart Search, an intelligent web-based search engine, integrating multiple databases to provide customers with fast, streamlined results;

--Application block diagram pages covering the automotive, communication, computing, consumer, industrial, ultra-portable and power supply market segments - all populated with technical information;

--Design tools including FETBench, Motor Drive Solutions, Offline SMPS Design, Power Factor Correction and ACEx(TM) controllers;

--Online seminars providing customers with sophisticated training on video and power topics;

--Power on Demand(TM) delivering fully populated and tested 10-25W power supplies within seven days;

--Fairchild Direct, a web-based purchasing capability, providing global online purchasing to shorten time-to-market requirements;

--RSS feed, a capability providing breaking Fairchild news as it happens;

--Tutorials covering a variety of power design topics; and

--Product availability information.

"The www.fairchildsemi.com web site offers a high-value, design-oriented repository of data where engineers can obtain information on products, specifications and application tools," says Rick Whitcomb, senior manager, Corporate Marketing. "It isn't enough to just provide product and marketing information. A truly innovative web site gives users intuitive, immediate access to information in a self-service environment. Fairchild designed the new web site to provide users with one-click access to the tools they need to simplify the selection and design process."

This redesigned www.fairchildsemi.com web site is part of Fairchild's Global Power Resource(TM) initiative. The Global Power Resource is a network of power design centers and a compendium of online knowledge and design tools, providing designers with solutions to solve their design challenges and speed their product's time-to-market.

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 and mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.