Thursday, August 12, 2004
Seeking to increase its footprint in China, Fairchild Semiconductor (South Portland, Maine) has added power design centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen and increased headcount and capacity at its less than year-old Suzhou facility.
The design centers, which Fairchild calls Global Power Resource Centers, are designed to provide comprehensive power design solutions for electronic applications in the Asian end markets of consumer, computing and telecom systems, and in power supplies for electronic devices. The Shenzhen and Shanghai Centers can provide demo boards, detailed bill of materials information, and turnkey designs.
Besides Shanghai and Shenzhen, Fairchild's other Far East design centers are in Bucheon, Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan.
Fairchild's assembly and test facility and automated warehouse in Suzhou, originally opened last September, is also expanding. The facility initially employed 570, but now employs 820. By 2005, Suzhou is expected to employ nearly 2,000 and upon completion of the second phase of the plant's expansion, will house 3,500.
According to market research firm Gartner, Fairchild was ranked in 2003 as the third largest supplier of analog ICs in Asia and top supplier of power semiconductors in China.
By: DocMemory
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