Fairchild Semiconductor
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: FCS |
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| Founded | 1 October 1957 |
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| Headquarters | 1272 Borregas Ave, Sunnyvale, California, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Products | Integrated circuits, Signal processors, Motor controllers, Field-effect transistors |
| Revenue |
 US$ 1.405 billion (2012) |
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US$ 44.7 million (2012) |
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US$ 24.6 million (2012) |
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| Total assets |
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| Total equity |
 US$ 1.3671 billion (2012) |
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Number of employees
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9000 |
| Parent | ON Semiconductor |
| Website | www |
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits. Schlumberger bought the firm in 1979 and sold it to National Semiconductor in 1987; Fairchild was spun off as an independent company again in 1997.
The company has locations in the United States at San Jose, California; South Portland, Maine; West Jordan, Utah; Mountaintop, Pennsylvania. Outside the U.S. it operates locations in Singapore; Bucheon, South Korea; Penang, Malaysia; Suzhou, China; and Cebu, Philippines; among others. A design center has been launched in Pune, India.
In 1956, William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California; his plan was to develop a new type of "4-layer diode" that would work faster and have more uses than then-current transistors. At first he attempted to hire some of his former colleagues from Bell Labs, but none were willing to move to the West Coast or work with Shockley again at that time. Shockley then founded the core of the new company with what he considered the best and brightest graduates coming out of American engineering schools.
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