Timeline of the Industry in South Portland

Note: Thank you to Kathy DiPhilippo, Executive Director/Curator of the South Portland Historical Society and Judith Borelli, Governmental Relations of Texas Inc. for providing some of the information for this timeline below.

Fairchild Semiconductor

1962 (a subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.) opened in the former Boland's auto building (present day Back in Motion) at 185 Ocean Street in June of 1962. They were there only temporarily, as the Western Avenue building was still being constructed.

1963 Fairchild Semiconductor moves to Western Avenue in February 1963.

1979 Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. is acquired/merged with , Ltd. (New York) for $363 million.

1987 Schlumberger, Ltd. sells its Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. subsidiary to Semiconductor Corp. for $122 million.

1997 sells the majority ownership interest in Fairchild Semiconductor to an investment group (made up of Fairchild managers, including Kirk Pond, and Citcorp Ltd.) for $550 million. Added Corporate Campus on Running Hill Road.

1999 In an initial public offering in August 1999, Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. becomes a publicly traded corporation on the New York Stock Exchange.

2016 Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. is acquired by ON Semiconductor for $2.4 billion.

National Semiconductor

1987 National Semiconductor acquires Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. from Schlumberger, Ltd. for $122 million.

1995 National Semiconductor breaks ground on new 200mm factory in December 1995.

1996 National Semiconductor announces plans for a $600 million expansion of its facilities in South Portland; construction of a new wafer fabrication plant begins.

1997 Plant construction for 200mm factory completed and production starts. National Semiconductor sells the majority ownership interest in Fairchild Semiconductor to an investment group (made up of Fairchild managers and Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd.) for $550 million.

2011 National Semiconductor is acquired by , Inc. on September 23, 2011 (includes the land on Pope Road).

ON Semiconductor

2016 ON Semiconductor acquisition of Fairchild (333 Western Avenue manufacturing/some office buildings on Running Hill Road) in September 2016.

Photos Source: Down East Digest, Volume XIV, Number 3, 1987