Corporate Overview/Profile

Company Overview
Atmel Corporation is a global leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, and complementary products such as capacitive touch sensing ICs, ASICs, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete microcontroller based system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, automotive, security, communications computing markets. By providing tools and support Atmel enables those customers to lead the markets they serve with electronic products that are smaller, smarter, more cost-effective and versatile than ever before.

As a global company with worldwide revenues coming from Asia, Europe and the Americas, Atmel has a significant number of global development and manufacturing operations. Atmel operates fabrication facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in Rousset, France. The company employs approximately 7,000 people worldwide. In addition to its fabrication facilities, Atmel has both its own test and assembly operations in Manila, Philippines and a sub contractor network. To better serve its customers Atmel has sales and field application support at 44 offices worldwide and numerous design facilities.

Atmel has a corporate-wide commitment to quality and continuous improvement that extends to every level of its activities. The ultimate objective is total customer satisfaction. Atmel strives to meet the needs of its worldwide customers and has continued its quality excellence path via major third-party certification programs: ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, and ISO 14001. All of Atmel's registration certificates can be downloaded from the Atmel quality web site.