Atmel Corporation is engaged in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, and complementary products such as capacitive touch sensing ICs, ASICs, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components. The company provides the electronics industry with microcontroller based system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, automotive, security, communications computing markets. Atmel operates fabrication facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in Rousset, France. The company employs approximately 7,000 people worldwide. In addition to its fabrication facilities, Atmel has both its own test and assembly operations in Manila, Philippines and a sub contractor network. To better serve its customers Atmel has sales and field application support at 44 offices worldwide and numerous design facilities.