MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC
Microchip Technology Incorporated is a company that develops, manufactures, and sells smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions. Its strategic focus is on providing cost-effective solutions with small size, high performance, extreme low power usage, wide voltage range operation, mixed-signal integration, and ease of development. The company offers a broad family of proprietary mixed-signal microcontroller products, analog products, FPGA products, royalties associated with licenses for the use of its technologies, memory products, timing systems, manufacturing services, and products for aerospace applications. Its manufacturing operations include wafer fabrication, wafer probe, assembly, and test. The company markets and sells its products worldwide primarily through a network of direct sales personnel and distributors. It competes on the basis of the technical innovation and performance of its embedded control products, including performance, analog, digital, and mixed-signal functionality, field programmability, memory density, low power consumption, extended voltage ranges, reliability, security and functional safety, packaging alternatives, comprehensive suite of development tools, ease of use, functionality of application development systems, hardware, software, and tool compatibility within product families, dependable delivery, quality, and availability, technical and innovative service and support, time to market, and total solution cost. The company's website is www.microchip.com and its ticker symbol is MCHP.