San Jose, California – July 20, 2015 — Fairchild (NASDAQ: FCS), a global provider of high-performance semiconductor solutions, today launched a broad portfolio of USB Type-C™ solutions that enable the rapid and simple addition of next-generation USB capabilities to a wide range of devices that use USB ports, such as smartphones, computers, and power adapters. Fairchild’s USB Type-C solutions, which are smaller in size and have lower power requirements compared to other products, allow for the development of thinner and sleeker devices with better battery efficiency due to lower system power consumption.

“Competitor products consume up to 10 times more power than the product we are launching, but Fairchild’s USB Type-C solution portfolio is leading the industry by satisfying both key requirements of modern small and thin battery-powered devices: low power consumption and small size,” said Jin Zhao, Senior Director of R&D at Fairchild. “Manufacturers are already utilizing Fairchild’s USB Type-C solutions and launching products that meet new standards, such as the manufacturer of the world’s first USB Type-C smartphone.”

Fairchild’s USB Type-C solutions meet the requirements of various fields, providing a wide range of choices and flexibility to enable manufacturers to incorporate optimal features into their end products. Fairchild’s various USB Type-C solutions include products that offer basic device type detection capabilities—such as connection, orientation, dual-pole ports, downstream facing ports, and upstream facing ports—as well as products that support other advanced features. Advanced features include data roll swap, power roll swap, hard reset, soft reset, active cable support, vendor-defined messaging (VDM), packet transmission, and high-power charging up to 100W.

This new USB Type-C solution is small, making it easier to integrate into product designs. In particular, the FUSB302 is available in a very small 1.2mm x 1.3mm WLCSP package, which is several times smaller than competing products, allowing manufacturers to design products with size constraints more flexibly.

Fairchild's USB Type-C solution uses the I2C interface to communicate control and commands with the application's host processor, so there is no need to embed a microprocessor.

Fairchild achieved both the lowest power consumption and the smallest size through system partitioning.