Atmel Appoints New Managing Director for Secure Microcontroller Solutions

Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the
appointment of Christian Fleutelot as the new Head and Managing
Director of Secure Microcontroller Solutions (SMS) Product Line.
Atmel's SMS Product Line includes some of the industry's most
advanced secure microcontrollers for smart cards and embedded
security systems.

"Atmel will continue to develop secure solutions of the highest
performance that meet the increasing demands of our customers," said
Christian Fleutelot. "We are more than ever committed to ensure that
our products are of the highest quality and that our employees bring
the kind of service that our customers deserve."

Christian Fleutelot has more than two decades of valuable
experience in the electronics industry. Early in his career, he
worked as a development engineer and manager for a France-based
company specializing in embedded microcontroller systems. Later on,
he joined AMD to serve as business development manager for IBM and HP
and from there, held several important functions in sales and
marketing for European Silicon Structure (ES2), which was acquired by
Atmel in 1995. It was during this time that he became head of the
smart card ICs and ARM(R)-based microcontrollers. Christian Fleutelot
has a degree in Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

Information:

For more information on Atmel's secure products, visit
http://www.atmel.com.

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 is
able to provide the electronics industry with complete system
solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications,
computing and automotive markets.

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Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963, hperlegos@atmel.com, both for
Atmel Corporation