Microchip Technology Inc
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: MCHP NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters |
Chandler, Arizona, United States |
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Key people
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Steve Sanghi, Chairman & CEO J. Eric Bjornholt, CFO Ganesh Moorthy, President & COO |
| Products |
Microcontrollers Serial EEPROMs Serial SRAM Analog ICs |
| Revenue |
 $2.173 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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10,000+ (2016) <> |
| Website | www |
Microchip Technology is an American 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.
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.
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