

It owns a facility in Colorado Springs that manufactures its XSense line of flexible touch sensors. Atmel is pursuing a “fab-lite” strategy, making much of its product line at vendor fabs.


It has large locations in Trondheim, Norway, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Chennai, India, Shanghai, China, Taipei, Taiwan, Rousset, France, Heilbronn, Germany, Whiteley, UK and Munich, Germany, in addition to a number of other worldwide sites. It is an industry leader in microcontroller and touch systems, notably for embedded systems, the such as famous Arduino development kits.Ītmel’s corporate headquarters is in San Jose California. Its products include microcontrollers (8-bit AVR, 32-bit AVR, ARM-based, automotive grade, and 8051 derivatives,) radio frequency (RF) devices including Wi-fi, EEPROM, and flash memory devices, symmetric and asymmetric security chips, touch sensors and controllers, and a number of application-specific products.Ītmel supplies its devices as standard products, ASICs, or ASSPs depending on the requirements of its customers.Ītmel serves a range of applications including consumer, communications, computer networking, industrial, medical, automotive, aerospace and military. The company focuses on embedded system-level solutions built around flash microcontrollers.

Atmel Corporation is an American manufacturer of semiconductors, founded in 1984.
