Elan Microelectronics Corporation
8-bit microcontroller : Elan EM78P156ELAS
ELAN (Elan Microelectronics Corporation) ( Chinese 義隆 電子 , Pinyin Yìlóng Diànzi ) was founded in 1994 as an IC design center in Hsinchu , Taiwan . ELAN is one of the 30 largest companies in this field worldwide. Since the company is “ fabless ” , i.e. does not have its own production capacities, it relies on Silicon Foundries for the production of the integrated circuits . ELAN has around 480 employees worldwide.