Atmel Corporation, founded in 1984, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of advanced semiconductors, including advanced logic, nonvolatile memory, mixed signal and RF integrated circuits.
Atmel is one of the elite new companies capable of integrating dense nonvolatile memory, logic and analog functions on a single chip. Atmel is currently also promoting their 8051 family of microcontrollers with FLASH and their AT91 ARM Thumb microcontrollers.
Core know-how is also held in the areas of Silicon Germanium RF systems and Power Amplifiers, embedded microcontroller 8051 and 251 architecture, FPGA turnkey conversions, Analog, Volatile memory (RAM, MPRAM, SRAM), Low power / low voltage, High power / high voltage.