Atmel
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0495131049 |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Reason for dissolution | Acquisition by Microchip Technology |
| Seat | San Jose , United States |
| Number of employees | 5,200 (December 31, 2014) |
| sales | 1.413 billion US dollars (2014) |
| Branch | Semiconductor industry |
| Website | www.microchip.com |
Atmel Corporation (acronym for "advanced technology for memory and logic") was an American manufacturer of integrated circuits based in San José in the state of California .
history
Atmel has been developing and producing microcontrollers (e.g. the AVR family and further developed 8051 controllers with flash memory ), programmable logic circuits , non-volatile semiconductor memories , as well as mixed-signal and radio components since it was founded in 1984 . The products are marketed as standard products (commodities), application-specific standard products (ASSP) or application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC).
A takeover agreed in September 2015 by the German-British company Dialog Semiconductor for 4.6 billion US dollars was canceled in January 2016. The purchase price, criticized as too high, had been outbid by Microchip Technology . Atmel paid Dialog a contractual penalty of 137 million euros for failing to complete the takeover. Eventually, Microchip acquired Atmel in 2016 for $ 3.6 billion. The acquisition was completed in April 2016.
Factories
Atmel owns a semiconductor manufacturing facility:
- Fab5 in Colorado Springs ( USA )
Five more production sites were sold by mid-2010:
- The production facility in Grenoble ( France ) was sold to e2v Technologies (UK) in July 2006.
- The wafer production facility in Irving ( USA ) was sold in May 2007.
- Fab9 in North Tyneside ( England ) was sold to TSMC , Ltd. in May 2008 . sold.
- Fab6 in Heilbronn ( Germany ) was sold to Tejas Silicon Holdings (UK) Ltd. in December 2008. sold.
- Fab7 in Rousset ( France ) was sold to LFoundry GmbH in July 2010 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Atmel Corporation: Annual Report. (PDF) Retrieved September 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Atmel Corporation: Atmel Product Guide November 2006. atmel.com ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, p. 3, English).
- ↑ RuMaS market report: Dialog Semiconductor: Atmel takeover off the table - price rises! (No longer available online.) January 18, 2016, archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fewer semiconductor manufacturers: Microchip buys Atmel. heise online, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
- ↑ MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY COMPLETES ATMEL ACQUISITION ... (PDF) Microchip Technology , April 4, 2016, accessed on April 6, 2016 (English).
- ^ Atmel Corporation, Press Release - July. 13, 2006: Atmel to Sell its Grenoble, France Subsidiary . ( English ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ^ Atmel Corporation, Press Release - May 1, 2007: Atmel Sells Its Irving, Texas Facility for Approximately $ 38 Million . ( English ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ^ Atmel Corporation, Press Release - Oct. 08, 2007: Atmel Announces Sale of Manufacturing Facility in North Tyneside, UK ( English ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ^ Atmel Corporation, Press Release - Dec. 31, 2008: Atmel Completes Sale of Manufacturing Operation in Heilbronn, Germany . ( English ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ^ Atmel Corporation, Press Release - June. 23, 2010: Atmel Completes Sale of Wafer Manufacturing Operation in Rousset, France to LFoundry GmbH . ( English ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
