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When Noyce and Gordon Moore left in 1968 to found Intel, Fairchild's glory days soon began to fade. It was sold to a succession of companies, neither of which turned it back into a money making operation. In 1997 Fairchild became an independent company again through the industry’s first leveraged buyout. The reborn corporation promptly set out to acquire other technology companies and develop new products, and in 1999 listed on the New York Stock Exchange.  Fairchild Semiconductor is today the leading global supplier of high performance power products for electronic applications in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial and automotive industries. The company's 9,000 employees design, manufacture and market a variety of power, electronics, analog and optoelectronics products from its headquarters in South Portland, Maine, USA and numerous locations around the world.