Atmel Corporate Profile
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of advanced semiconductors and system-level integration solutions.
Atmel Corporation, founded in 1984, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of advanced semiconductors, including advanced logic, nonvolatile memory, mixed signal and RF (radio frequency) integrated circuits. Atmel is also a pre-eminent provider of system-level integration solutions, enabling its customers to lead the markets they serve with electronic products that are smaller, smarter, less expensive and more versatile than ever before.
 Atmel is a multi-national company with worldwide revenues balanced between North America, Europe and Asia, and significant development and manufacturing operations in each region. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Atmel operates fabrication facilities in the United States and Europe, including an 8-inch, class one, 0.25-micron capable wafer fabrication plant in Rousset, France.
Atmel chips are manufactured using the most advanced wafer processes, including BiCMOS, CMOS and Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technologies. In fact, Atmel is one of the first manufacturers to offer SiGe, a new technology that cost-effectively addresses the manufacturing requirements of the RF and high-frequency wireless communications markets.
Atmel manufactures and ships over 4 million integrated circuits (ICs) per day — more than 1 billion ICs per year — for use in a wide range of communications, computer and consumer applications. Atmel also designs, manufactures and markets advanced ICs for the automotive, instrumentation, military and industrial control markets, delivering quality, innovation and value to every market served.
Atmel's world-class portfolio of advanced logic, nonvolatile memory, mixed signal and RF semiconductors is the foundation for the Company's ability to serve the needs of these rapidly evolving markets. At the same time, Atmel's system-level integration initiative is combining more functions on fewer chips, enabling customers to achieve greater cost and power efficiencies, smaller circuit boards and, ultimately, sleeker end-user devices like lighter mobile phones, leaner computer peripherals and more capable electronic appliances.
In addition, Atmel is one of the elite few companies capable of integrating dense nonvolatile memory (NVM), logic and analog functions on a single chip. Atmel streamlines the integration of these functions to achieve high quality, fast time-to-market and low unit prices for its customers.
Atmel is headquartered in San Jose, California and has 9 North American and 15 international sales offices. Atmel employs 6,000 people worldwide and markets its products through a global network of Company sales offices, registered sales representatives and electronic component distributors.
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