DALLAS, Feb. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BeaconEquity.com announces an investment report featuring Atmel Corp. (Nasdaq:ATML). The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.
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Atmel Corp. (ATML) 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. The Company organizes its business into four operating segments: Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, RF and Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
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In the report, the analyst notes:
"Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 were $343.6 million, an 8% increase compared to $317.7 million for the third quarter of 2009, and a 3% increase compared to $334.6 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. For the full year 2009, revenues were $1.22 billion, compared to $1.57 billion for 2008, a 22% decrease.
"AMTL this week announced a new family of single-key touch controllers for the portable device market. This new family offers designers power consumption below 17uA for next-generation portable touch devices, including power buttons, hearing devices, consumer toys and proximity sensors. The embedded low-power features in AMTL's new family of single-key touch controllers also enable longer battery life for these portable devices. Based on AMTL's patented QTouch® capacitive touch technology for buttons, wheels and sliders, the new family of single-key capacitive touch controllers offers a better response time."
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