ROUSSET, France, June 24, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has licensed the ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 32-bit RISC processor for the next generation of its market-leading AT91SAM ARM technology-based microcontrollers. This reinforces Atmel's commitment to the ARM architecture, comple...

ROUSSET, France, June 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the release of its AT73C237 Power Management Unit (PMU) compatible with a 5V input supply and generating four regulated output voltages, with programmable output voltage selection and output current up to 70mA. Th...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7(TM)-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MC...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today two new low power 32-pin tinyAVR(R) microcontrollers, the ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices which have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory, respectively. These AVR(R) microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1 MHz, and be...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 9, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the AT86RF212 800/900 MHz IEEE 802.15.4(TM) RF transceiver for low power wireless applications, including ZigBee(R). The AT86RF212 offers an industry best RF performance with a link budget of up to 120 d...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 9, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today an embedded development kit for CryptoController(TM), Atmel's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) for non-PC embedded applications. For the first time, developers will have the ability to easily integrate the security provided by TPM...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 2, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), an inventor and leading provider of swipe sensor technology and solutions, announced today that its FingerChip(R) fingerprint sensor solution has been selected by Rise Computer, Inc. for its RX5622 LCD PC. Rise will showcase this biometrics-c...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Industrial Software Technology(TM) S.A. announced today the industry's most integrated solutions to design Java applications for embedded systems. Based on a cleanroom implementation of a Java(R) Virtual Machine called MicroJvm(R), the fir...

SHANGHAI, China, May 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- China International Automotive Electronics Show -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the new fully integrated fractional-N PLL RF transmitter IC ATA5749 for car access and TPMS applications. The new device is one of the very few automotive RF...

SHANGHAI, China, May 19, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- China International Automotive Electronics Show, Shanghai -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the new high-temperature hex half-bridge driver ICs ATA6837 and ATA6839. The ATA6837 and ATA6839 are manufactured using Atmel's high-voltage 0.8 um...

ROUSSET, France, May 14, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its 400 MHz AT91SAM9G20 ARM926EJ-S(TM)-based embedded microprocessor that draws only 80 mW in full-power mode with all peripherals turned on. The AT91SAM9G20, pin-compatible with the 200 MHz AT91SAM9260, offers four times the ca...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 12, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its Aris++ development kit with Crypto Evaluation Studio(TM) tool suite for the design and evaluation of counterfeit-proofing embedded applications that are protected by hardware-based encryption and mutual authentication. The ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 6, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today the AVRUSBRF01 reference design for development with AVR(R) microcontrollers in the un-licensed 2.4 GHz ISM band and connection to PCs with USB. USB is the standard interface for connecting PC peripherals but wireless is be...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 2, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) was recently recognized for its development of the FingerChip(R) fingerprint sensor technology at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Southeast Asia Industrial Technologies awards presentation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mr. Yang Chiah Yee, Vice President...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 30, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. Revenues for the first quarter of 2008 were $411.2 million, a 3.4% decrease compared to $425.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2007 and a 5.1% increase c...

HEILBRONN, Germany, April 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the new LF coil driver IC ATA5279 designed for Passive Entry Go (PEG) and Passive Go (PG) hands-free car access systems. This is industry's first and only off-the-shelf antenna driver IC. Compa...

ROUSSET, France, April 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that its CAP(TM) customizable microcontroller has been named as one of the Products of the Year by Electronic Products China (EPC) Magazine. The selection was made by a panel of editors and industry experts based on the criter...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that the Company's Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Edward Ross as a new Independent Director. Mr. Ross brings a long history of experience in the semiconductor industry having served most recently as President ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its AT91CAP7X-DK development kit for designers to develop, emulate, and ultimately migrate ARM7(TM)-plus-FPGA designs to Atmel's CAP7 customizable microcontrollers. Atmel's CAP7 customizable MCU is an ARM7-based...

ROUSSET, France and PITTSBURGH, April 14, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and TimeSys(R) announced today embedded Linux(R) support for Atmel's ARM9(TM)-based AT91CAP9 customizable microcontroller. Ideal for rapid design validation, TimeSys is offering a free Board Support Package (BSP) for the CAP9 b...