Atmel Selected to Associate Member of Bluetooth SIG.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 2001 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) announced today it has been selected as an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. (SIG). Atmel's selection to become an Associate Member was sponsored by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation, one of the nine promoter companies responsible for the overall development and promotion of Bluetooth wireless technology. As an Associate Member, Atmel will play an increased role in defining the current and future Bluetooth specifications and have early access to new developments and specification releases. Early access to Bluetooth specification changes or modifications allows Atmel to release products that meet the most current specification well before others. Atmel's Bluetooth products include a single-chip baseband controller (AT76C55X) capable of performing both Link Manager and Controller function, an RF transceiver (TRANSmitter reCEIVER) An electronic device or circuit that transmits and receives analog or digital signals. It comes in many forms; for example, a transponder on a satellite, a network adapter in the computer or the circuits in a cellphone. (T2901) and a Power Amplifier Power amplifier The final stage in multistage amplifiers, such as audio amplifiers and radio transmitters, designed to deliver appreciable power to the load. with integrated LNA LNA Low-Noise Amplifier LNA Locked Nucleic Acid (Link Technologies Ltd.) LNA Linolenic Acid LNA Licensed Nursing Assistant LNA Launch Numerical Aperture LNA Ladies National Association LNA Leading National Advertisers, Inc. (T7024) for long range 20 dBm options. "The Bluetooth SIG is dedicated to supporting the worldwide adoption of the Bluetooth specification," said Richard Bisset, product marketing director of Atmel Corporation. Bisset goes further on to say, "Since our initial SIG involvement as an Early Adopter, Atmel has emerged as one of the foremost silicon solution providers for Bluetooth. Our objective in becoming an Associate Member is to allow Atmel to play a more active role in defining current and future Bluetooth technology specification enhancements and additions. By participating in this process, Atmel's expertise in developing similar protocol products can prove to be beneficial to the SIG. Additionally, early access to any changes to the specification allows us to make any necessary changes to our products, ensuring our products meet the latest specification." About Bluetooth SIG The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) was initially formed by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Toshiba, aiming mainly to promote the Bluetooth wireless technology worldwide, to ensure interoperability among different vendor Bluetooth devices and to lead the development efforts the next-generation technology. Today more than 2,000 companies have joined the SIG contributing to spreading the Bluetooth name and technology around the world. The SIG structure includes the following categories: Promoter, Early Adopter, Associate Member, Working Group, Expert Group and Marketing subgroup. All companies that have signed the Early Adopter Agreement are eligible to apply for Associate Membership. In order for an Early Adopter company to apply for Associate Membership, a Promoter Company (3Com, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba) must sponsor it. Associate members have early access to specifications from the Working Groups, to the Associate website, and to viewing Reflectors that are the communication means between the various Groups. For more information, please visit www.bluetooth.com. About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose with manufacturing facilities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory See non-volatile memory. and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar (1) See bipolar transmission. (2) One of two major categories of transistor; the other is "field effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistors and first silicon chips were bipolar, most chips today are field effect transistors wired as CMOS logic, which SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. Atmel product and financial information can be retrieved from its Fax-on-Demand service. In North America call 800/292-8635. Internationally from a fax phone, dial 1-(408) 441-0732. Requests may be sent via e-mail to literature@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's website at www.atmel.com. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. |
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