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Atmel North American Company Profiles
Regional Headquarters/Representative Locations
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ATMEL
Atmel Corporation
2325 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, California 95131
Telephone: (408) 441-0311
Fax: (408) 436-4200
Web Site: www.atmel.com
IC Manufacturer
Japan: Atmel Japan K.K. • Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Telephone: (81) (3) 5641-0211 • Fax: (81) (3) 5641-0217
Europe: Atmel U.K. Ltd. • Camberley, Surrey, England
Telephone: (44) (1276) 686677 • Fax: (44) (1276) 686697
Asia-Pacific: Atmel Asia, Ltd. • Kowloon, Hong Kong
Telephone: (852) 2721-9778 • Fax: (852) 2722-1369
Financial History ($M), Fiscal Year Ends December 31
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
Sales 140 222 375 634 1,070
Net Income 14 30 59 114 202
R&D Expenditures 18 26 43 70 110
Capital Expenditures 14 74 183 270 400
Employees 998 1,250 1,900 2,900 3,900
Company Overview and Strategy
Atmel designs, manufactures, and markets a broad array of high-performance CMOS memory, logic, and analog
integrated circuits. Founded in 1984, the company serves the manufacturers of communications equipment,
computers, and computer peripherals as well as producers of instrumentation, consumer, automotive, military, and
industrial equipment. Much of Atmel's ICs are based on its proprietary non-volatile memory technology. The
company's name was derived from Advanced technology: memory and logic.
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ENGINEERING CORPORATION