Fairchild Semiconductor Technologist to Chair ``Power Supplies & Consumer Applications'' Session at IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference 2005

Business Wire, June 2, 2005

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE:FCS) technologist Alan Elbanhawy will chair the "Power Supplies and Consumer Applications" session at the IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC) held June 16th-17th in Recife, Brazil. The session, scheduled for Thursday, June 16th (1:45 - 4:25 p.m.), will feature eight speakers addressing power supply technologies and solutions.

Elbanhawy will also present the paper, "Current Sharing in Multi-Converters Using Temperature Equalization," scheduled for Tuesday, June 14th (11:20 - 11:45 a.m.). This paper offers a novel approach for guaranteeing load current sharing that at the same time assures equalization of case temperature of the switching MOSFETs. Alan outlines how multi-phase converters offer excellent transient response and efficiency performance advantages in designs such as the core converter for personal computers.

Elbanhawy is director, Computing and Telecommunication Segments, Advanced Power Systems Center at Fairchild Semiconductor. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and has over thirty-five years of experience in power supply design and R&D management. He holds four patents and has applications pending for an additional seven. Conferences where he has presented papers include PESC, PEDS, Intel Technology Symposium, PCIM, PPDC, IPEC, IPEMC, IIC and Power Systems World. His papers have appeared in five languages in international technical publications.

About PESC:

The IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference -- PESC -- is an annual international conference that provides a forum for research results that advance fundamentals and principles of power electronics technologies. PESC includes technical sessions, tutorials, and informal discussion sessions. Topics cover design, control, analysis, modeling, and simulation of power electronic systems, converters, motor drives and components, semiconductor devices and technologies, magnetic devices and materials, capacitors and other energy storage elements, merging power electronics technologies, and all other aspects of the field. For more information please go to: http://pesc05.ufcg.edu.br/.> 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 through minimization, conversion, management and distribution functions. Fairchild's 9,000 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.