Atmel Corporation company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Atmel Corporation (Atmel) designs, develops, manufactures and sells a range of integrated circuits (IC) products, including microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. These complex system-on-a-chip solutions are manufactured using the Company’s process technologies, including complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS), logic, CMOS logic, bipolar, bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), SiGe BiCMOS, analog, bipolar double diffused CMOS and radiation tolerant process technologies. The Company organizes its business into four operating segments: Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, RF and Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). On March 6, 2008, the Company acquired Quantum Research Group Ltd.