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Fairchild Semiconductor Receives Automotive Quality ISO/TS16949 Certification
June 14, 2004 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
South Portland, Maine — Fairchild Semiconductor announces that all of its manufacturing facilities worldwide producing automotive products have achieved the automotive standard ISO/TS16949 certification.
TS16949:2002 is a comprehensive quality management standard developed by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) and Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association Inc. (JAMA) and specifies quality system requirements for the design, development, production, installation and servicing of automotive related products. TS16949 members, including GM, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault, VW, BMW, Mitsubishi and national automotive trade associations from the U.S., Germany, UK, Italy, Japan and France, define the specifications and mandate suppliers meet the certification requirement in order to participate in the automotive market.
Fairchild is the Power Franchise, supplying components to minimize power requirements while managing, distributing and converting power in a wide variety of automotive applications including ignition control and management, ABS systems, navigation, safety, body electronics and entertainment systems. Fairchild supplies IGBTs, MOSFETs and logic products to leading automotive manufacturers such as Bosch, Siemens and Delphi.
The power semiconductor demand is expected to outgrow all other automotive-related metrics, according to research analyst iSupply. The automotive power semiconductor market is projected to grow at a 25.3 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2003 to 2008, while the total automotive semiconductor revenue is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.4 percent, making power semiconductors the fastest growing segment in the automotive market. Worldwide consumption of vehicles for 2003 reached 60.5 million units and is expected to grow to 65 million vehicles by 2007. Electronic content in today's automobiles is greater than $500 per vehicle.
ISO/TS16949 is considered the most comprehensive of the existing industry standards and is generally accepted by all major industries, allowing certified companies full participation in the automotive market segment. This standard also avoids the proliferation of multiple certification audits and provides a common approach to quality management systems for production in most industries.
Fairchild Semiconductor is a leading global supplier of high performance products for multiple end markets. For more information, visit www.fairchildsemi.com.