Electronic components from Microchip

Microchip Technology is an American manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors. It was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary Its products include microcontrollers (PICmicro, dsPIC / PIC24, PIC32), Serial EEPROM devices, Serial SRAM devices, KEELOQ devices, radio frequency (RF) devices, thermal, power and battery management analog devices, as well as linear, interface and mixed signal devices. Some of the interface devices include USB, ZigBee/MiWi, Controller Area Network, and Ethernet. Corporate headquarters is located at Chandler, Arizona with wafer fabs in Tempe, Arizona and Gresham, Oregon, and assembly/test facilities in Chachoengsao, Thailand.