Atmel Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of a range of integrated circuits (IC) products. Its products include microcontrollers, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory, and radio frequency components in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The company operates in four segments: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, and Radio Frequency and Automotive. The ASIC segment offers semi custom, single customer ICs for the telecommunications, consumer, and military markets; application specific standard products for multiple customers serving the imaging sensors and processors, as well as the wireless and wired data communications markets; smart card ICs for the telecommunication, banking, and consumer markets; and programmable logic devices that serve the industrial, military, and computing markets. |