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- Microchip Technology Incorporated develops, manufactures and sells smart, connected and secure embedded-control semiconductor solutions. The company operates through Semiconductor Products and Technology Licensing segments. Its Semiconductor Products segment provides general-purpose and application-specific 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers under the PIC®, AVR® and SAM product families; 32-bit and 64-bit embedded microprocessors, including PIC64® RISC-V® multi-core processors and SAMA® devices; digital signal controllers; PolarFire®, PolarFire SoC®, RT PolarFire® and RTG4® field-programmable gate arrays; analog, mixed-signal and power-management products, including power modules, silicon-carbide MOSFETs, IGBTs, gate drivers, DC-DC converters, diodes, MOSFETs, thermal-management devices, linear products, RF devices, safety and security ICs; timing, synchronization and atomic-clock products; wired and wireless connectivity products, including Ethernet PHYs and switches, single-pair Ethernet devices, USB controllers and hubs, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products, CAN devices, PoE solutions and interface ICs; storage, compute and data-center infrastructure products, including Adaptec® and Microsemi® storage controllers, RAID and host-bus adapters, SAS/SATA expanders, NVMe® controllers, CXL™ memory controllers, PCIe® switches and retimers, and Switchtec® products; memory products, including EEPROMs, Serial Flash, Parallel Flash, Serial SRAM and EERAM; touchscreen, human-machine-interface and secure-authentication controllers; and aerospace- and defense-grade, radiation-tolerant and radiation-hardened products. It also supplies development ecosystems comprising MPLAB® integrated development environments, compilers, programmers, debuggers, development boards, evaluation kits, code configurators, software frameworks, AI and machine-learning tools, reference designs and technical support. The Technology Licensing segment licenses SuperFlash® embedded non-volatile-memory and related technologies to foundries, integrated device manufacturers and design partners, and provides associated intellectual-property and engineering services. Microchip’s products serve original equipment manufacturers and design engineers in automotive and e-mobility, industrial automation, consumer and appliance, communications, computing and data-center, aerospace and defense, aviation, space, medical, networking, energy, IoT, robotics and security markets. The company operates globally, with sales and operations serving customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and conducts wafer fabrication, wafer probe, assembly and test activities. Recent strategic developments include expansion of its 64-bit PIC64 microprocessor portfolio; continued investment in AI-data-center connectivity, storage and power infrastructure; collaboration with Micron Technology on PCIe Gen 6 storage architecture for AI and data-center systems; the launch of XpressConnect™ PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.1 retimers, 3.3 kV HV-D3 mSiC® power modules, dsPIC33A digital signal controllers, automotive Ethernet PHYs, PolarFire FPGA edge-AI capabilities, and post-quantum-ready root-of-trust controllers; and the expansion of developer access through free MPLAB XC compilers and the MPLAB Machine Learning Development Suite. Founded in 1989, Microchip Technology Incorporated is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.