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Atmel Ramps up Production of Microcontroller Devices at UK Facility Targeting 60 Million Chips Per Month

North Tyneside, England, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire)

- Key Sectors of Growth Address Increased Demand in Industrial,
Consumer and Security Applications
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the design
and manufacture of advanced semiconductors, focused on
microcontrollers, nonvolatile memory, logic, RF components and
sensors, announced today that it is ramping up the UK's largest and
most successful semiconductor manufacturing facility to meet growing
customer demand. The company's North Tyneside fabrication plant, in
the North East of England, has just hit its milestone of producing 50
million silicon chips per month and is set to reach 60 million a
month by the year end. The increased production, mainly to support
Atmel's rapidly growing Smart Card IC business will significantly
contribute to Atmel's strategy of increased asset utilization. In
terms of the flexible management of Atmel's capacity this comes as a
welcome addition as significant back-up to plants already present in
Rousset, France and Colorado Springs, USA, supporting the company's
commitment to supply chain management and the on-time delivery of
products to its customers.
Innovative products addressing growth markets: North Tyneside has
become the company's flagship production site for secure smartcard
Ics manufacture alongside other microcontroller and memory chips. The
smartcard market is growing exponentially due to ever-increasing
demand for secure internet banking, smart credit cards, mobile phone
SIM cards and secure personal ID cards. Atmel North Tyneside is also
manufacturing microcontrollers for a wide range of industrial,
consumer and automotive products. The fabrication plant also produces
chips for mobile phone cameras, computers and other
telecommunications products.
Atmel's North Tyneside managing director Craig McInnes said: "We
have come through the semiconductor industry's biggest recession in a
position of strength to meet growing market demand. Just this year we
have achieved a three-fold increase in the number of units produced
per employee. That is a fantastic effort by any industry's
standards," he continued. "We are looking forward to becoming one of
Europe's most important semiconductor manufacturers and exceeding the
needs of our valued customers," he concluded.
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory
and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) portfolios, Atmel is able to
provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions.
Focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing
and automotive markets, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere You
Are(SM).
NOTE: Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof are registered
trademarks, and Everywhere You Are(SM) is the service mark of Atmel
Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be
the trademarks of others.
Atmel's website is available at: http://www.atmel.com .
Contact: Europe, Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications
Manager, +33-1-30-60-70-68, or  veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, or USA
and Asia, Clive Over, Director of Public Relations, +1-408-451-2855,
or  cliveover@atmel.com, both of Atmel.
Web site: http://www.atmel.com

Contact:

Europe, Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager,
+33-1-30-60-70-68, or veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, or USA and Asia,
Clive Over, Director of Public Relations, +1-408-451-2855, or
cliveover@atmel.com, both of Atmel

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