San Jose, California – April 28, 2008 – Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS), has received an Excellent Supplier Award from Longcheer, an independent design house for mobile handsets. Longcheer is an industry leader in China, the largest mobile handset market in the world. Fairchild has been providing its leading edge power management and analog switch solutions for Longcheer’s mobile handset designs for more than five years.

The rapid growth of consumer demand for more multi-media features in handsets requires innovation and greater power efficiency to support advanced functionalities in applications such as high-definition cameras, stereo sound, CD-quality MP3 players and navigation. By presenting this award, Longcheer endorses Fairchild’s extensive product portfolio, and strong technical and delivery support services, all of which enable handset OEMs to innovate more quickly, efficiently and broadly.

“Our Excellent Supplier Award is given to companies who help us design competitive mobile handsets with their innovative technologies, products and support,” said Dr. Junhong Du, CEO of Longcheer. “Fairchild’s excellent technical and delivery support is instrumental to our business, and our relationship over the last five years provides the foundation to future collaborative efforts that will lead to more successes to Fairchild and Longcheer.”

Fairchild’s ongoing focus on power and energy efficiency, and the relentless implementation of its clearly-defined China business strategy, has been the key to its success in China. Increasing demand for mobile phones and portable devices generally means higher power consumption. However, these appliances are designed and manufactured so that they are as energy-efficient as possible. Fairchild provides energy efficient solutions and is a world leader in power semiconductor products for today’s electronic appliances.

“Winning the Excellent Supplier Award is recognition of Fairchild’s long-term commitment to Longcheer and the Chinese mobile handset industry,” said Benjamin Tan, Fairchild’s regional vice president, Sales, China and SEA. “We will continue to work closely with Longcheer to deliver high-quality product performance and bring positive user experiences to the mobile industry.”

Every D12 Toxic Gas Transmitter will accept up to 46 different sensors, greatly reducing the need for multiple transmitter models. The self-aligning sensor holder simply plugs in, with automatic sensor recognition and verification when contact is made.

For many toxic and combustible gases, ATI offers a unique sensor response testing system unmatched by any competitive transmitter. Even outdoors in high wind conditions, the Auto-Test system provides reliable response checks to insure system integrity. Sensor response is verified with an actual gas sample, generated on demand. Generators store run time information accessible to operators, and are automatically tested for compatibility with the installed sensor.

D12 transmitters provide useful features that simplify installation, operation, and maintenance. From clear menu-driven setup pages to large numerical display of gas values, you simply can’t find a more versatile transmitter. Gas concentrations are displayed in large, easy to read numbers. The display also provides alarm indication and complete menus for setting up operating parameters. Backlighting is available when operating in 3-wire mode.

Operating functions such as calibration, alarm setup, alarm reset, data view, and setup options are all available using a magnetic tool. It is not necessary to open the enclosure when making adjustments.

Transmitters are designed for operation in hazardous areas. The cast aluminum housing for the D12 transmitter is rated for Class 1, Division 1, Group B, C, D locations and is UL, FM, and CSA certified.

The transmitter is available with either HART™ or MODBUS™ protocol. The HART™ protocol supports the HART™ Universal and Common Practice Commands at 1200 baud using the Bell 202 FSK modem standard. The MODBUS™ protocol supports 9600 baud access to concentration and status information, and supports alarm setup and many other functions on either RS485 or RS232 (software selectable).

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Norwood, MA(4/21/2008) – Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is expanding its portfolio of market-leading energy metering solutions with the ADE51xx and ADE55xx single-chip metering devices, which are designed for the increasingly sophisticated communications networks used by today’s energy markets. Globally, solid-state energy meters are replacing failure-prone electromechanical systems, which are subject to meter tampering and cannot easily support new features such as remote meter-reading and time-of-use billing. These new features and the more robust metering networks they enable are demanding greater memory density to handle the energy industry’s growing data volume. Analog Devices’ new SoC (system-on-chip) energy meter devices feature 62 Kbytes of on-chip flash memory and 2 Kbytes of RAM (random access memory), which provides more usable memory than any other available energy meter to support the program and data storage needs of advanced communications protocols in North America, Europe and emerging Asian markets.

The single-chip ADE51xx and ADE55xx metering devices integrate a proven energy measurement core, an 8051 microcontroller, a LCD (liquid crystal display) driver with contrast control, a full hardware RTC (real-time clock), two UARTs (universal asynchronous receivers-transmitters), and intelligent battery management technology. In addition to replacing six discrete ICs with a single SoC, the highly integrated metering solutions maintain accurate time, sense temperature changes, run the LCD read-out, and perform other critical system functions, all while using less than half the power of competitive solutions. In battery mode, current consumption is reduced to 1.5 microamps. This 50 percent reduction in current consumption when the LCD is activated, as compared to other energy metering SoC solutions, is achieved through a combination of battery management techniques that allow the meter to run multiple LCD screens, maintain active temperature measurement, and keep accurate timing during power outages—all while the microcontroller remains in sleep mode. The ADE51xx differs from the ADE55xx by offering two current inputs for anti-tampering detection and billing.

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