Atmel Confirmed as Fastest Growing Among Top Ten 8-bit Microcontroller Suppliers

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Leading Research Firm Ranks Companies by Combined Total
Revenues, Revenue Growth and Product Sales

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) has been named by Gartner,
Inc. in its most recent 2009 market research (Source: Gartner,
Semiconductor Industry Worldwide Annual Market Share: Database April
2009) as the fastest growing 8-bit microcontroller supplier in 2008.
Atmel is also identified as among the best-performing semiconductor
companies in 2008. Gartner noted that Atmel increased its position to
fifth in overall shipments of 8-bit microcontrollers while citing
Atmel's performance in three areas of company and financial
performance over the past four quarters: total revenues, revenue
growth and product sales. Atmel's 8-bit microcontroller based revenue
for the 12 months ending December 2008 grew over 16 percent to US$466
million, growing faster than other major 8-bit microcontroller
vendors in the industry in the overall research ranking.

"We are delighted to be recognized as the fastest growing 8-bit
microcontroller supplier among the top ten," said Alf-Egil Bogen,
Atmel's Vice President of Corporate Marketing. "We believe that we
are well positioned for continued success with our strong proprietary
AVR(R) microcontrollers and our leading QTouch(TM) capacitive touch
technology," 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) technology portfolios, Atmel
provides the electronics industry with complete system solutions
focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing
and automotive markets.

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Contact:
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