32 Facts About Atmel

Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016.

Atmel serves applications including consumer, communications, computer networking, industrial, medical, automotive, aerospace and military.

Atmel makes much of its product line at vendor fabrication facilities.

Atmel was an acronym for “advanced technology for memory and logic”.

Rather than fight the patent claim, Atmel redesigned its products to use different intellectual property.

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Atmel used US$60 million in venture capital for the 1989 purchase of a fabrication facility from Honeywell in Colorado Springs.

In 1991, Atmel expanded the Colorado facility after acquiring Concurrent Logic, a field-programmable gate array manufacturer.

Atmel made its initial public offering in 1991 which yielded more than US$65 million.

In 1995, Atmel was among the first companies to license the ARM architecture, creating its AT91 family of devices, followed by the SAM family, and more recently a full selection of Cortex-based solutions, including ones based on the ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M4.

In 1995, Atmel acquired the pan-European chipmaker European Silicon Structures and thus gained a fabrication facility in Rousset, France.

Atmel acquired Digital Research in Electronic Acoustics and Music in 1996.

Atmel formed a design team in Trondheim, Norway to develop the Atmel AVR line of RISC microcontrollers.

In 1998, Atmel purchased part of TEMIC from Vishay Intertechnology, which provided them with a fab in Germany as well as part of MHS from Vishay that gave them a fab in Nantes, France.

In September 2000, Atmel acquired a fabrication plant in North Tyneside, England, from Siemens, via a £28 million grant from the UK government and paying Siemens around US$35 million.

Under Laub Atmel divested more manufacturing plants and business lines.

Atmel announced the sale of its North Tyneside facility on October 8,2007.

In 2010, Atmel received approval from the French government to sell its fab to Germany-based LFoundry GmbH, while retaining their design center there.

Atmel completed the sale of their Secure Microcontroller Solutions smart card business to INSIDE Secure.

In February 2011, Atmel sold its Digital Research in Electronics, Acoustics and Music business, which sold products for karaoke and other entertainment machines, for US$2.

In 2008, Atmel bought Queens Award-winning Quantum Research Group Ltd.

Atmel purchased the smart metering product lines of IDT Corporation in March 2013.

In October 2008, Atmel received an unsolicited offer from Microchip Technology and ON Semiconductor, estimated at US$2.

Atmel had previously heard offers from Cypress Semiconductor and Dialog Semiconductor in 2015, and the deal with Microchip was expected to be finalized at the end of Q2 2016.

Atmel finally merged with Microchip Technology in July 2016 after prolonged negotiations for US$3.

Finally, Atmel offers a line of IR controllers that can support infrared as well as RF wireless.

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Atmel makes both touchscreen controller ICs and its XSense flexible touchscreen.

Atmel makes sensor hubs that manage accelerometers, gyroscopes, inertial measurement units and magnetometers.

Atmel makes simple touch controller chips for buttons, sliders, and wheels used on industrial and consumer products.

Finally Atmel offers a trusted platform module that gives strong hardware-based public key security for both personal computers and embedded processors on a single chip.

Atmel makes power management and analog companions that combine a group of discrete ICs often used in handheld or battery-powered products.

Atmel modified or specialized many of its products for the automotive market.

Atmel has chips specialized for the smart energy and smart metering markets.