Microchip Technology Inc. is an American publicly-listed corporation that is a 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 and Calamba, Philippines. Sales for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2016 were $2,173,334,000.
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History
Microchip Technology was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary. Microchip Technology became an independent company in 1989 when it was acquired by a group of venture capitalists, and went public in 1993.
In April 2009, Microchip Technology announced the nanoWatt XLP Microcontrollers, claiming the world's lowest sleep current. Microchip Technology had sold more than 6 billion microcontrollers as of 2009.
In April 2010, Microchip acquired Silicon Storage Technology (SST), and sold several SST flash memory assets to Greenliant Systems in May that year.
As of 2011, Microchip Technology ships over a billion processors every year. In September 2011, Microchip Technology shipped the 10 billionth PIC microcontroller.
In August 2012, Microchip acquired Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC). 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.
In January 2016, Microchip agreed to buy Atmel for $3.56 billion. JPMorgan Chase advised Microchip while Qatalyst Partners advised Atmel.
In March 2018, Microchip acquired Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ: MSCC). The acquisition price represents a total equity value of about $8.35 billion, and a total enterprise value of about $10.15 billion, after accounting for Microsemi's cash and investments, net of debt, on its balance sheet at December 31, 2017.
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Products
Microchip develops a wide range of microcontrollers and integrated circuits (ICs), for the hobbyist and professional markets.
Microcontrollers
Microchip is widely known for their line of PIC 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 Intel MCS-51 MCUs
- KEELOQ MCUs for security applications
- rfPIC MCUs for wireless sensor applications
- AVR microcontrollers
- SAM ARM-based microcontrollers 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
The Microchip product line of integrated circuits include:
- Memory storage devices
- Serial EEPROM chips
- Serial SRAM chips
- Serial Flash chips
- Parallel Flash chips
- Serial NVRAM 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
Leadership
Steve Sanghi
Chief Executive Officer, Microchip Technology Inc.
Ganesh Moorthy
President & Chief Operating Officer, Microchip Technology Inc.
J. Eric Bjornholt
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Microchip Technology Inc.
Stephen V. Drehobl
Vice President, MCU8 Division, Microchip Technology Inc.
Mitchell R. Little
Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Applications, Microchip Technology Inc.
Richard J. Simoncic
Vice President, Analog Power and Interface Division, Microchip Technology Inc.
Appointed Officers
Mathew B. Bunker, Vice President, Back-End Operations
Stephen T. Caldwell, Vice President, Wireless Products Division
Lauren A. Carr, Vice President, Human Resources
Kathryn A. Clevenger, Vice President, Fab 4 Operations
Nuri Dagdeviren, Vice President, Security Products Group
Rod Drake, Vice President, MCU32 Division
Randall L. Drwinga, Vice President, Memory Products Division
Fanie Duvenhage, Vice President, Human Machine Interface Division
Michael A. Finley, Vice President, Fab Operations
Thomas J. Grune, Vice President, Americas Sales
Ian F. Harris, Vice President, Computing Products Group
Sudarshan Iyengar, Vice President, India Development Center
Patrick Johnson, Vice President, Mixed Signal and Linear Division
Matthias Kaestner, Vice President, Automotive
Rami Kanama, Vice President, Timing and Communication Group
Joseph R. Krawczyk, Vice President, Asia Sales
Bryan J. Liddiard, Vice President, Marketing for Mixed Signal and Linear Division
Dan Malinaric, Vice President, Fab 5 Operations
Gary P. Marsh, Vice President, European Sales
Sumit K. Mitra, Vice President, Wireless Solution Group & MCU32 Division
Mitchel Obolsky, Vice President, USB and Networking Group & MCU16 Division
Greg Perzanowski, Vice President, Quality & Reliability Systems
Kenneth N. Pye, Vice President, Worldwide Applications Engineering
Mark W. Reiten, Vice President, Licensing
David Sadler, Vice President, Finance & Corporate Controller
Nawaz Sharif, Vice President, Europe Finance
Joseph Thomsen, Vice President, MCU16 Division
Alfredo Vadillo, Vice President, MPU32 & Aerospace
Kimberly van Herk, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Robert Williams, Vice President, Global Information Services
Ian (Kai Man) Yue, Vice President, SuperFLASH Design
Acquisitions
HI-TECH Software
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). HI-TECH Software was bought by Microchip on 20 February 2009, whereupon it refocused its development effort exclusively on supporting Microchip products.
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 and Z80 cross compiler.
Silicon Storage Technology
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST) was a Sunnyvale, California, United States, technology company producing non-volatile memory devices and related products. SST supplied NOR flash and other integrated circuits for high-volume applications.
Bing Yeh co-founded SST in August 1989, and served as its chief executive.
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.
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. The company had its initial public offering November 21, 1995, trading on the NASDAQ market under the symbol SSTI. Analytical models of SuperFlash were published. A five-year licensing agreement was announced in January 1999 with Acer Inc.. A 1997 lawsuit filed by Intel was settled in May 1999 after mediation.
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. 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.
In 2006, SST announced a joint development agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to develop 90 nm SuperFlash technology.
SST had its stock option grant practices investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, ending in June 2008. It determined it needed to restate earnings, and was given a de-listing notice by NASDAQ for filing late reports from 2006 through 2007. Business slowed in the Great Recession.The company announced a loss on reduced revenues, reducing its workforce by 17% in December 2008.
In November 2009, Technology Resource Holdings offered to acquire the company for about $200 million, but a group of shareholders thought it was undervalued. Starting in February 2010, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management and public company Microchip Technology both made offers to acquire SST. In April 2010, Microchip completed the acquisition for about $292 million. Microchip sold several SST flash memory assets to Greenliant Systems (founded by Yeh) in May of that year.
Other acquisitions
- Atmel
- EqcoLogic Inc.
- ISSC Technologies Corporation
- Micrel
- Microsemi
- SMSC
- Supertex
References
External links
- Official Microchip Technology Inc. website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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