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OnSemi buys Fairchild

Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
edited 2015-11-20 00:10 in General Discussion
http://hackaday.com/2015/11/19/on-semiconductor-acquires-fairchild/

Does Fairchild have any fab plants? If so, geometry sizes? Any benefits for the P2?

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  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    Yes but not what you're thinking of.

    OnSemi was one part of Motorola Semi. The other was Freescale. They are supposedly merging with NXP.

    Oddly enough the only company who makes excellent logic, still, is TI.

    Fairchild and TI were once related via the people who founded them. Let's just say its messy.
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    That's strange. Erco your robot is now sitting in the bow of his boat......
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,918
    I was under the impression that Fairchild had been gobbled up by TI years ago. Maybe Fairchild had split in two?
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    Buck Rogers wrote: »
    Oddly enough the only company who makes excellent logic, still, is TI.

    NXP is another company with a large Logic offering.

    Getting back to OnSemi/Fairchild :

    There is considerable overlap there in Logic, and in some power Devices too.

    Cluso99 wrote: »
    Does Fairchild have any fab plants? If so, geometry sizes? Any benefits for the P2?

    Neither OnSemi or Fairchild are big into Micros.
    Of the 51,052 MCUs at Digikey, just 13 Lines are Fairchild, and 91 Lines (0 in stock) are OnSemi (ex Sanyo, IIRC).

    They also both have many more parts listed in
    PMIC - Motor Drivers, Controllers
    heading

    Fairchild did have an interesting Flash MCU Motor-controller, but I see they sold that line off :
    https://www.fairchildsemi.com/product-technology/bldc-controller/




  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    Fairchilds FAB in Portland Maine is/was still pretty active, (Been out there several times) ... National Semiconductor used to share part of the same parking lot with Fairchild Semi.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fairchild+Semiconductor/@43.6402925,-70.3265475,3a,75y,46.98h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4R3m1ozKyiuJ2-Nuzgy8TA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x8a933dfdfead48b0!6m1!1e1
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    Correct.
    NSC made a bad business decision some time ago to buy the original Fairchild. Eventually NSC spun them off and Fairchild went off to do what it was doing until that decision was made.

    Oddly enough its possible to sort out the history of example of logic by the part number. If anyone wants to know please ping me off board.
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