Fairchild Semiconductor Announces Dr. Izak Bencuya Will Deliver Keynote Address at PCIM China 2006.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- E[acute accent]--To Address Critical Market Demands Driving Integrated Power Solutions

E[acute accent]Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), the leading global supplier of high performance products that optimize system power, today announced that Dr. Izak Bencuya, Fairchild's executive vice president and general manager, Functional Power Group, will deliver the keynote address at the prestigious PCIM China 2006 Conference in Shanghai, China, on March 21, 2006. Dr. Bencuya will highlight evolutionary trends in power design fueled by application demands for better performance in smaller packages. PCIM China 2006 runs from March 21 through March 23. E[acute accent]Dr. Bencuya will address the market forces that are driving the design of more integrated power functions. He will also highlight current approaches that facilitate optimal subsystems and enable applications to reach previously unattainable performance without lengthy design and verification efforts. E[acute accent]PCIM China is a premier event to support the power electronics industry in China, a region in which Fairchild has considerable design, manufacturing, assembly and test capabilities. PCIM China is in its fifth year and brings together international experts to present the latest application-oriented results and products. E[acute accent]Additionally, Fairchild technologists will present the following papers at the conference:

E[acute accent]--"The Influence of Parasitic Inductances on Current Mismatch in Parallel MOSFETs" by Alan Elbanhawy.

E[acute accent]MOSFETs have been used successfully in parallel for a long time in synchronous buck converters in VRM applications. Now with up to 40 amps per phase applications, design engineers must pay particular attention to the PCB layout and minimize layout parasitic inductances associated with the paralleled MOSFETs to avoid imbalance in current sharing and heating, ultimately averting possible power supply failure.

E[acute accent]--"Reverse Recovery Evaluation of Conventional and Super Junction MOSFET Body Diodes" by Praveen Shenoy.

E[acute accent]SMPS, ballast and white good applications need MOSFETs with good body diode characteristics to reduce turn-on losses. Also, the body diode should be able to handle high di/dt and dv/dt. Reverse recovery measurements show that competitors SJ MOSFET body diodes fail at a di/dt of just 100A/us where as SuperFET(TM) devices are virtually indestructible, surviving >1000A/us.

E[acute accent]Integral to Fairchild's focus on delivering highly integrated products for the consumer, communications, industrial, computing and automotive markets are Fairchild's Global Power Resource(TM) centers. These worldwide centers, three of which are located in China, are staffed with system 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 (www.fairchildsemi.com/designcenter) to assist customers at their convenience in the power optimization of their design. E[acute accent]For complete information on Fairchild's 2006 events, please access www.fairchildsemi.com/tradeshow.

E[acute accent]About Fairchild Semiconductor:

E[acute accent]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.