Fairchild Semiconductor Enters ALVC Market to Meet High Performance Needs of Growing Low Voltage Market

Business Wire, Nov 12, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2001

100 percent compatible with current industry specifications, new

ALVC products also offered without bushold allowing designers to

utilize a power saving option

Solidifying itself as a leader in the low voltage logic market, Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE: FCS) today released 45 new ALVC devices and immediately priced the new family below competitive products. Today's announcement positions Fairchild as one of only three suppliers able to offer customers a complete line of low voltage products that address all market segments.

Fairchild's line of 45 ALVC devices are 100 percent compatible with existing ALVC specifications, including fast, 3 ns prop delays at 3.3V -- ideal for applications that demand high-speed memory access, such as the latest generation of servers and workstations.

Building on its reputation for innovation, Fairchild has enhanced its ALVC product family to offer designers devices both with and without bushold. Fairchild's product line provides designers power savings critical to applications such as PDAs and notebooks, where even slight power savings is important. Using a device without bushold saves about 500(mu)A per I/O on a 16-bit device; this represents up to 8mA of current.

In traditional applications, the bushold circuit technique holds an IC device input in its last known state - high or low - regardless of fluctuating line-voltage episodes. The internal bushold circuitry eliminates the need for an external pull-up resistor. However, the same circuitry also dissipates power even when it's not needed. Fairchild's solutions allow designers to choose between utilizing the bushold function for traditional designs, or increasing power savings by selecting ALVC devices without bushold.

Fairchild's family of ALVC products also addresses the confusion often encountered in logic procurement. Due to the variety of names used to identify logic families within the industry, today's announcement enables simplified identification and ordering.

Pricing begins at the following per piece in quantities of 10,000 pieces.

74ALVCH16244 $0.72

74ALVCH245 $0.36

74ALVC00 $0.18

For more information, contact Fairchild Semiconductor Customer Response Group at (888) 522-5372, fax (972) 910-8036 or visit Fairchild's website at: http://www.fairchildsemi.com/products/logic/.> Graphics available upon request.

Fairchild Semiconductor International

Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE: FCS) is a leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets. With a focus on developing leading edge power and interface solutions to enable the electronics of today and tomorrow, Fairchild's components are used in computing, communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and aerospace applications. Fairchild's 11,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world. Please contact us on the web at www.fairchildsemi.com.