Atmel Corporation was founded in 1984 by George Perlegos.
Atmel was an acronym for "advanced technology for memory and logic".
Atmel was a semiconductor company, before being acquired by Microchip Technology Inc. in 2016.
It was founded in 1984. Its product line included microcontrollers (including derivatives of the 8051, the ARM-based AT91SAM, and its proprietary AVR and AVR32 architectures), radio frequency devices, memories EEPROM and Flash, ASICs, WiMAX, and many others. It also has the capacity to offer system on chip (SoC) solutions.
Atmel was oriented to the markets of consumer electronics, communications, computers, networks, industrial electronics, medical equipment, automotive, aerospace and military. It was an industry leader in secure systems, especially in the secure card market.