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Exhibit 99.1
(ON LOGO)
     
Ross Ayotte
  Ken Rizvi
Corporate Marketing
  Investor Relations
ON Semiconductor
  ON Semiconductor
(602) 244-5978
  (602) 244-3437
ross.ayotte@onsemi.com
  ken.rizvi@onsemi.com
ON Semiconductor Repurchases Common Stock from Company’s Largest Stockholder
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Dec. 27, 2006 — ON Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: ONNN) today announced that, after evaluation and upon the recommendation of a special committee consisting of independent directors, it has entered into a Purchase Agreement with TPG Semiconductor Holdings LLC and TPG ON Holdings LLC, each a Delaware limited liability company (collectively “TPG”). The company agreed to repurchase $69,999,995.54 (9,749,303 shares) of its common stock from TPG, the company’s largest stockholder, for a purchase price of $7.18 per share (the “TPG Repurchase”).
The purchase price represents a 3 percent discount to the closing price of the company’s common stock on December 26, 2006, the date the transaction was agreed to, and represents a 4 percent discount to the average price paid by the company on December 11, 2006, to repurchase approximately 30.7 million of its shares in connection with a concurrent convertible note offering.
In its December 18, 2006 press release, the company had stated that it would begin 2007 with a fully diluted share count of approximately 305 million shares based on the current stock price and would also anticipate beginning 2007 with over $250 million of cash, cash equivalents and short term investments if no further share repurchases were made during the fourth quarter. Based on today’s announcement, the company now expects that it will begin 2007 with a fully diluted share count of approximately 295 million shares and will begin 2007 with over $200 million of cash, cash equivalents and short term investments.
“We are excited by our ability to negotiate directly with our largest shareholder and use cash on hand to repurchase approximately 3 percent of our common stock outstanding. We believe this transaction provides an example of how the company can work directly with TPG to reduce their ownership position in an orderly manner,” said Donald Colvin, ON Semiconductor executive vice president and CFO.
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About ON Semiconductor
With its global logistics network and strong portfolio of power semiconductor devices, ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a preferred supplier of power solutions to engineers, purchasing professionals, distributors and contract manufacturers in the computer, cell phone, portable devices, automotive and industrial markets. For more information, please visit ON Semiconductor’s website at http://www.onsemi.com.
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