Friday, November 10, 2006

ON Semiconductor Opens Facility In Slovak Republic

Phoenix-based ON Semiconductor announced yesterday that it has officially opened up a new product development center in Bratislava, Slovakia. The new center will focus on designing integrated circuits for power management and automotive applications. ON said that the center employes 15 engineers with plans to expand staffing to 30 in the near future. The new center expands the firm's current business in Central Europe, where it already operates two wafer fab facilities, customer service and logistics, and another product development center in the Czech Republic. ON Semiconductor provides power semiconductor devices for the computing, automotive, industrial, and other markets.