Fairchild Opens Brazil Office

Staff Reporter -- Electronic News, 6/6/2006

South Portland, Maine-based Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a new design center for power chips in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the company announced on Monday.

The company said in a statement that the new design center  responds to the burgeoning high-technology markets in South America. The region is projected by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics to have a 14 percent growth rate in 2006 and nearly 10 percent in 2007, the company noted. 

Fairchild will use the new center to focus on its South American manufacturing customers in the consumer electronic and appliance, lighting, automotive and telecom markets.

"Fairchild's design center in Brazil, as well as all of the company's centers worldwide, are able to respond to our customers' demands for ready-made designs that they can take to market as quickly as possible," said Kevin Parmenter, senior director, Field Applications Engineering, Americas, in a statement. "We are equipped to offer the top electronics manufacturers in the region Fairchild's power optimizing design expertise backed by a leading-edge product portfolio of analog, power discrete and standard products whose breadth-and-depth is unparalleled in the industry."

The Sao Paolo center is the company's ninth such facility worldwide; Fairchild also maintains design centers in Germany, Korea, Taiwan, China and the United States.