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Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, digital signal controller, analog and serial EEPROM devices, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

Microchip designs, manufactures, and markets a variety of high performance components for high volume, cost-effective embedded control solutions. Microchip's product solutions feature compact size, integrated functionality, and ease of development.

Microchip has an experienced executive management team committed to listening to our customers and a corporate culture dedicated to continuous improvement. The company currently employs more than 3,400 employees around the world, and our sales offices are situated throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Microchip is the #1 supplier of 8-bit microcontrollers, based on worldwide unit shipments since 2002 (Gartner Dataquest, 2002 Microcontroller Market Share and Unit Shipments, Tom Starnes, June 2003).

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SMSC investors sue to stop takeover by Microchip
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Investors in SMSC have filed two lawsuits in Delaware state court seeking to block the proposed $939 million acquisition of SMSC by Microchip Technology, according to reports.

Talk from the hip at Microchip
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Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi is a straight talker. When he comments on the economy, outsourcing, technology or market trends, you’ll hear very little conventional wisdom or polite evasion. He has no stake winning a popularity contest or looking fashionable.

Microchip to buy SMSC, plotting new expansion
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Micochip's SMSC acquisition deal puts Microchip – long known as a “long-tail” company with 70,000 customers – on a new trajectory.

Microchip tips gesture firm buy in profitable quarter
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Microcontroller vendor Microchip has acquired Ident Technology, a German company that is developing 3-D gesture recognition technology based on electric field sensing.

Energy-measurement AFE integrates two 24-bit ADCs
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Microchip's next-generation AFE features two 24-bit, delta-sigma ADCs that operate at 3V with industry-leading accuracy of 94.5 dB SINAD and 106.5 dB THD.

Design calculations for robust I2C communications
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The I2C bus topology relies on correctly sized pull-up resistors for reliable, robust communications.

Microchip buys wireless module maker
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Microcontroller vendor Microchip Technology Inc. has acquired Roving Networks Inc., a supplier of WiFi and Bluetooth wireless modules, for an undisclosed sum of money.

Who has the lowest power MCU?
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There seem to be conflicting claims out there about who has the lowest power microcontroller or MCU. The devil is in the detail.

Ready for the Microchip MASTERs?
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Registration is now open for the 16th annual Microchip Worldwide MASTERs Conference at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Arizona from August 8 through 11.

Microchip brings cost-effective analog/digital capabilities to 8-bit PIC microcontrollers
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New MCUs feature on-chip 12-bit ADC, 8-bit DAC, op amps, high-speed comparators, eXtreme low power technology, and 16-bit PWM for advanced control

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