Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Fairchild Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 19 April 2002
Fairchild gains market share
Fairchild Semiconductor has claimed a number of market share gains based on the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) global sales data for March 2001 to February 2002
Fairchild continued to capture increases in worldwide share of power components as well as other product segments. Fairchild's market share gains from March 2001 through February 2002 included: power components (power discrete, standard linear voltage regulators/reference generators) worldwide share of market grew from 7.2 to 10.3%; discrete components (including diodes, small signal transistors, rectifiers and power transistors) grew from 5.3 to 8.2%; and Fairchild increased its overall market share in standard linear, discrete, standard logic and optoelectronics markets worldwide from 5.2 to 6.6%.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 April 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our focus on power has enabled us to outpace the industry in market share growth.
In the fourth quarter of 2001, sales from power products grew more than 10% to account for nearly 60% of all trade revenues", said Kirk Pond, Fairchild's president, CEO and chairman of the Board.
"We're very encouraged by our aggressive growth in market share, especially during a tough economic period.
The strength of our strategy to grow through acquisition and new product development, while leveraging opportunities in a challenging market environment, continues to move Fairchild ahead as a leading supplier of high performance building block products critical to multiple end markets".
"Our market share growth was gained by focusing on new, next-generation applications, such as DVD players, digital cameras, PDAs, notebooks, set top boxes and Pentium 4 Processor power supplies.
We continue to capture new design wins for a wide variety of brand name consumer, computer, communications, power supply and automotive applications", said Hans Wildenberg, executive vice president, Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Fairchild.
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