Atmel Confirmed as Fastest Growing Among Top Ten 8-bit Microcontroller Suppliers
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Leading Research Firm Ranks Companies by Combined Total Revenues, Revenue
Growth and Product Sales
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) has been named by Gartner, Inc. in
its most recent 2009 market research (Source: Gartner, Semiconductor Industry
Worldwide Annual Market Share: Database April 2009) as the fastest growing
8-bit microcontroller supplier in 2008. Atmel is also identified as among the
best-performing semiconductor companies in 2008. Gartner noted that Atmel
increased its position to fifth in overall shipments of 8-bit
microcontrollers while citing Atmel's performance in three areas of company
and financial performance over the past four quarters: total revenues,
revenue growth and product sales. Atmel's 8-bit microcontroller based revenue
for the 12 months ending December 2008 grew over 16 percent to $466 million,
growing faster than other major 8-bit microcontroller vendors in the industry
in the overall research ranking.
"We are delighted to be recognized as the fastest growing 8-bit
microcontroller supplier among the top ten," said Alf-Egil Bogen, Atmel's
Vice President of Corporate Marketing. "We believe that we are well
positioned for continued success with our strong proprietary AVR(R)
microcontrollers and our leading QTouch(TM) capacitive touch technology," he
concluded.
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio
frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest
intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel provides the
electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer,
industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.
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combinations thereof, AVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks or
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Information:
Atmel Press Contact:
Clive Over, Director of Press Relations
Tel: +1 408 436 4305, E-mail: clive.over@atmel.com
SOURCE: Atmel Corporation
CONTACT: Clive Over
Director of Press Relations of Atmel Corporation
+1-408-436-4305
clive.over@atmel.com
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