Microchip Technology Incorporated Common Stock

Microchip Technology, Inc. engages in the provision of semiconductor products. The company is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona and currently employs 19,400 full-time employees. The Company’s semiconductor products segment designs, develops, manufactures and markets mixed-signal microcontrollers, development tools and analog, interface, mixed-signal, timing, wired and wireless connectivity devices, and memory products. The firm's technology licensing segment includes sales and licensing of the Company's intellectual property. Its products include PIC64 Microprocessors, FPGAs, myMicrochip, MPLAB X IDE, Analog, and Microcontrollers. Its development tools include Atmel START and MPLAB Discover. Its manufacturing operations include wafer fabrication, wafer probe, assembly, and test. The Company’s solutions serve customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. The firm markets and sells its products worldwide primarily through a network of direct sales personnel and distributors.