In the second big deal by a U.S. company to buy a Taiwanese chip maker in recent months, Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. on Tuesday launched a US$200 million bid to buy System General Corp. The two ...

Fairchild Semiconductor and Himax Technologies both completed steps this week that finalize, or nearly finish, their bids to buy Taiwanese chip makers. Fairchild received regulatory approval from the ...

REUTERS - ON Semiconductor Corp is to buy Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc for $2.4 billion to bolster its business of making power-management chips, the latest in a rapidly consolidating ...

produces with a smaller work force. “That 2 inches additional space that we get on a wafer automatically increases our capacity,” Harrison said. Computer chips are produced by fabricating integrated ...