Fairchild Semiconductor Adds Product Availability Search Tool to Its Web Site; Simplifies Product Purchases by Accessing Up-to-Date Distributor Information

Business Wire, Dec 10, 2002

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE:FCS) announces an online search tool that instantaneously provides product availability information from the company's distributor network.

The new Distributor Stock Check tool searches Fairchild's comprehensive portfolio of Power Discrete, Analog & Mixed Signal, Interface & Logic and Optoelectronics products, locating distribution sources available for immediate delivery. Fairchild offers this tool as part of its Customer First eBusiness Program, a global, comprehensive, customer oriented initiative that offers a series of integrated applications that enable the company's 50,000-plus customers, channel partners and suppliers to do business with Fairchild in the manner of their preference.

Using the new cross-referencing inventory search tool, visitors on Fairchild's Web site can easily determine product availability by using a search function located at the top of each Web page. Or, they can submit a full or partial product name into the search field on the Distributor Stock Check page (fairchildsemi.com/buy_products/), or visitors can click on any hyperlinked product name appearing on product folder Web pages. Any one of these simple search methods produces a real-time list of Fairchild worldwide distributors carrying in-stock products and quantities on hand.

"This new Distributor Stock Check search tool on Fairchild's Web site quickly and easily shows customers the Fairchild products we distribute and it can link them directly to our Web site," said Skip Streber, VP of supplier marketing, Arrow Electronics. "Since we update our information daily, busy designers can see what we have in stock, at any time, which makes the purchasing processes convenient."

Fairchild's Power Products

Fairchild is The Power Franchise(TM), offering many different types of power-related components designed to minimize, distribute, manage and convert power in a broad range of applications for the computing, communications, industrial, automotive and consumer markets. (For more information on how to optimize system power using Fairchild's power solution products, visit fairchildsemi.com/power.)

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 and automotive applications. Fairchild's 10,000 employees design, manufacture and market power, analog & mixed signal, interface, logic, and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, and numerous locations around the world. Contact us on the Web at www.fairchildsemi.com.