verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message microchip technology type public traded as nasdaq mchp s & p 500 component industry semiconductors founded 1989 ; 27 years ago 1989 headquarters chandler arizona united states key people steve sanghi chairman & ceo j. eric bjornholt cfo ganesh moorthy president & coo products microcontrollers serial eeproms serial sram analog ics revenue 2.173 billion 2016 1 number of employees 10 000 2016 2 website www.microchip.com a 1988 vintage microchip pic16cr54 with the apple desktop bus protocol pre programmed before they became an independent company as used in a macintosh se . microchip technology is an american manufacturer of microcontroller memory and analog semiconductors . its products include microcontrollers picmicro dspic pic24 pic32 avr avr32 and sam serial eeprom devices serial sram devices keeloq devices radio frequency rf devices thermal power and battery management analog devices as well as linear interface and mixed signal devices . some of the interface devices include usb zigbee miwi controller area network lora sigfox and ethernet . corporate headquarters is located at chandler arizona with wafer fabs in tempe arizona gresham oregon and colorado springs colorado assembly test facilities in chachoengsao thailand . sales for the fiscal year ending on march 31 2016 were 2 173 334 000 . 2 among its chief competitors are analog devices infineon maxim integrated products nxp semiconductors previously philips and purchased freescale renesas electronics stmicroelectronics and texas instruments . former rival atmel was bought in 2016 see below . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 microcontrollers 2.2 integrated circuits 3 acquisitions 3.1 hi tech software 3.2 silicon storage technology 4 references 5 external links history edit microchip technology was founded in 1987 when general instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary . 3 microchip technology became an independent company in 1989 when it was acquired by a group of venture capitalists and went public in 1993 . 4 in april 2009 microchip technology announced the nanowatt xlp microcontrollers with world s lowest sleep current . 5 microchip technology had sold more than 6 billion microcontrollers as of 2009 . 6 in april 2010 microchip acquired silicon storage technology sst 7 and sold several sst flash memory assets to greenliant systems in may that year . 8 as of 2011 microchip technology ships over a billion processors every year . in september 2011 microchip technology shipped the 10 billionth pic microcontroller . 9 in august 2012 microchip acquired standard microsystems corporation smsc . 10 among smsc s assets were those it had previously acquired from symwave a start up that specialized in usb 3.0 chips and two hi fi wireless audio companies kleer semiconductor and wireless audio ip bv . 11 12 13 in january 2016 microchip agreed to buy atmel for 3.56 billion . 14 15 16 jpmorgan chase advised microchip while qatalyst partners advised atmel . 17 products edit microchip develops a wide range of microcontrollers and integrated circuits ics for the hobbyist and professional markets . microcontrollers edit microchip is widely known for their line of picmicro microcontrollers and their mcu related product line includes pic microcontrollers 8 bit mcus pic10 pic12 pic16 pic18 16 bit mcus pic24 dspic 32 bit mcus pic32mx pic32mz legacy 8051 mcus keeloq mcus for security applications rfpic mcus for wireless sensor applications avr microcontrollers sam arm based microntrollers and microprocessors computer software mplab ide mplab xpress c and c compilers for pic dspic mcus code libraries for pic dspic mcus development hardware mplab series debuggers & programmers for professionals pickit series programmers for hobbyists and students integrated circuits edit the microchip product line of integrated circuits include memory storage devices serial eeprom chips serial sram chips serial flash chips parallel flash chips interface devices usb controllers zigbee miwi controllers can lin controllers ethernet controllers power management devices battery charge controllers li ion nimh multi chemistry power mosfets voltage regulators motor drivers pwm based controllers dc motor controllers bldc motor controllers touch sensing mtouch capacitive sensor technology righttouch turn key capacitive sensor technology gestic 3d tracking and gesture detection technology haptics eccentric rotating mass erm actuators ultrasound devices ultrasound switches ultrasound transmitters acquisitions edit hi tech software edit hi tech software was an australian based company that provides ansi c compilers and development tools . founded in 1984 the company is best known for its hi tech c pro compilers with whole program compilation technology or omniscient code generation ocg . 18 19 hi tech software was bought by microchip on 20 february 2009 20 whereupon it refocused its development effort exclusively on supporting microchip products . 21 supported manufacturers and architectures microchip pic10 pic12 pic14 pic16 pic18 pic24 pic32 and dspic cypress psoc s silicon laboratories mcus 8051 mcus z80 for cp m 22 and z80 cross compiler . silicon storage technology edit eprom 28ee011 made by sst silicon storage technology inc. sst was a sunnyvale california united states technology company producing non volatile memory devices and related products . 23 24 sst supplied nor flash and other integrated circuits for high volume applications . 25 bing yeh co founded sst in august 1989 and served as its chief executive . 26 at the 1992 fall comdex trade show sst introduced the first single board 30 mb 2.5 solid state drive with standard hard disk ata interface and a 5 mb pc card memory card with built in controller and firmware . 27 in 1993 sst moved its headquarters to sunnyvale . that same year sst introduced its first superflash technology products with lower costs and faster write speeds . by the end of 1995 more than 90 % of the pc motherboards produced in taiwan had adopted sst s 1 mbit superflash eeprom product for the bios storage . citation needed the company had its initial public offering november 21 1995 trading on the nasdaq market under the symbol ssti . 28 analytical models of superflash were published . 29 30 a five year licensing agreement was announced in january 1999 with acer inc. . 31 a 1997 lawsuit filed by intel was settled in may 1999 after mediation . 32 in 2004 sst began to diversify beyond flash memory products targeting consumer and industrial products with embedded solid state data storage and rf wireless communication . 33 in september 2004 sst purchased a majority stake in emosyn which designed products for sim cards . in october it announced the acquisition of g plus based in santa monica california . 33 in 2006 sst announced a joint development agreement with taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company tsmc to develop 90 nm superflash technology . 34 sst had its stock option grant practices investigated by the us securities and exchange commission ending in june 2008 . 35 it determined it needed to restate earnings and was given a de listing notice by nasdaq for filing late reports from 2006 through 2007 . 36 business slowed in the great recession.the company announced a loss on reduced revenues reducing its workforce by 17 % in december 2008 . 37 in november 2009 technology resource holdings offered to acquire the company for about 200 million but a group of shareholders thought it was undervalued . 38 starting in february 2010 private equity firm cerberus capital management and public company microchip technology both made offers to acquire sst . 39 40 in april 2010 microchip completed the acquisition for about 292 million . 41 42 microchip sold several sst flash memory assets to greenliant systems founded by yeh in may of that year . 43 smsc atmel micrel issc technologies corporation supertex eqcologic inc. acquisitions references edit 1 a b 2016 proxy statement and annual report pdf . 2 general instrument microelectronics renamed . microchip investor relations faqs . quick darren . nanowatt xlp microcontrollers claim world s lowest sleep current gizmag april 30 2009 brian santo may 2009 . 25 microchips that shook the world . ieee spectrum . retrieved 2012 04 01 . cite news sst acquisition title microchip completes sst acquisition date april 8 2010 publisher ee times url http www.eetimes.com electronics news 4088552 microchip completes accessdate 2016 02 22 maleval jean jacques may 27 2010 . greenliant acquires assets of microchip . storagenewsletter.com . microchip technology delivers 10 billionth pic microcontroller microchip technology and smsc announce the completion of the acquisition of smsc by microchip technology pdf press 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