Fairchild Semiconductor Power Experts to Provide Insight into Today's Designs at 2006 Power Seminars.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) will launch its 2006 Power Seminars beginning in January in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Building on concrete customer experience and theory, these seminars will help applications designers improve performance, comply with energy efficiency regulations and achieve significant system-level cost savings. The seminars will include fresh approaches to switching regulator topologies and implementations, practical application issues for Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), and understanding modern power MOSFETs.

For dates and locations, visit www.fairchildsemi.info/powerseminar2006.

"Designers today need information quickly to shorten design cycles and bring their products to market faster. Fairchild answers this need by applying practical customer experience to application challenges in these one-day power seminars," says Claudia Innes, director of Corporate Marketing.

These Power Seminars feature power experts from Fairchild's Global Power Resource(TM) design centers who will discuss the latest design techniques, tips and tools for optimizing system power. The topics include:

--A Fresh Approach to Switching Regulator Topologies and Implementation

--Practical Power Application Issues for Switch Mode Power Supplies

--Understanding Modern Power MOSFETs

--Practical Power Application Issues for High Power Systems

--Applying Power MOSFETs in an Unclamped Inductive Switching Environment (in selected locations)

These seminars are part of the educational and practical tools offered by Fairchild's Global Power Resource. These resources encompass a network of worldwide power design centers with a suite of online tools and system design experts who partner closely with customers to optimize and innovate designs. By providing design, selection and educational tools online, customers can optimize their designs anywhere at anytime.

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.