Microchip tops Gartner rankings

NEW DELHI: Microchip Technology Inc. has received the top position in worldwide 8-bit microcontroller revenue, according to industry analyst firm Gartner Dataquest's 2006 rankings.

Microchip serves more than 55,000 customers in over 65 countries who are designing high-volume embedded control applications in the consumer, automotive, office-automation, communications and industrial-control markets worldwide.

Based on a powerful RISC core, the 8-bit PIC microcontroller architecture provides an easy migration path from 6 to 100 pins among all families. Microchip offers close to 450 PIC microcontrollers in reprogrammable (Flash), one-time-programmable (OTP), and read-only memory (ROM) program memory configurations, featuring numerous on-chip peripherals. The 16-bit PIC24 microcontrollers and dsPIC digital signal controllers build upon the performance, peripherals and features of Microchip 8-bit PIC18 family, offering up to 40 MIPS throughput and integrated DSP capabilities.

"Microchip became number one by pioneering the field-programmable segment of the 8-bit microcontroller market with one-time-programmable (OTP) and Flash microcontrollers for volume-production quantities - not just for design and development," said Microchip's CEO and president, Steve Sanghi.

Microchip expects to ship its two billionth Flash microcontroller this quarter.

© CyberMedia News