Touchscreens are everywhere now, but they still don’t work as good as they should. They remain frustratingly unresponsive to finger taps, consume a lot of power, and are bulky. So Silicon Valley chip ...

PHOENIX – November 29, 2012 – Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced it has received formal certification from Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) as ...

Atmel isn’t saying the exact cost, but a controller is typically 25 percent of a touchscreen’s electronics cost. The maxTouch chips originated from Atmel’s acquisition two years ago of Quantum in the ...

Just last week, there was considerable speculation that Microchip would buy Atmel. The deal wasn’t done, and there was precedent that this deal wouldn’t happen – earlier this year, Dialog made an ...

array CCD (TH7896M) is embedded to analyze the UV to near infrared spectrum. This particular CCD is partially coated with a UV layer and sealed with a special quartz window. A lander will make a ...

Inside Contactless is buying the secure microcontroller business from chip maker Atmel Corp., France-based Inside announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Inside says it is paying ...

LONDON A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) chipset developed by Atmel Corp. in Heilbronn, Germany is being used in a text-based information service for digital broadcasting, called Journaline, which ...