MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY

Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP) is a manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors, founded in 1989 when a group of venture capitalists acquired Microchip from General Instrument. Its products include microcontrollers (PICmicro, dsPIC / PIC24), Serial EEPROM devices, KEELOQ devices, radio frequency (RF) devices, thermal, power and battery management analog devices, as well as linear, interface and mixed signal devices. Some of the interface devices include ZigBee/MiWi, Controller Area Network, and Ethernet. Corporate Headquarters is located at Chandler, Arizona with wafer fabs in Tempe, Arizona and Gresham, Oregon. Microchip Technology Inc. manufacturers and markets a variety of VLSI CMOS semiconductor components to support the market for cost-effective embedded control solutions. In particular, Microchip specialize in highly integrated, field-programmable RISC MCUs, application-specific standard products, secure data products, application-specific integrated circuits and related Serial EEPROM memory products to meet growing market requirements for high performance, yet economical embedded control capability in products. Microchip's products feature the industry's most economical One-Time-Programmable (OTP) EPROM, reprogrammable Flash and EEPROM, and ROM capability, along with the compact size, integrated functionality, ease of development and technical support so essential to timely and cost-effective product development by customers.