Atmel's XSense technology made its debut way back in April of 2012, but today ASUS became the first big name gadget maker to commit to using the tech -- pledging to put it in an unnamed next-gen ...

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been ported to the cheapest and most portable platform yet: An Atmel ATmega microcontroller. Boasting a 20MHz 8-bit AVR processor, 128KB of flash storage and a ...

The world of semiconductor manufacturers grew smaller this week with the news that Microchip Technology was to acquire rival Atmel in a deal valued at a whopping $3.56 billion. Semiconductor giant ...

FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chipmaker Dialog Semiconductor said it had agreed on Sunday to buy U.S. peer Atmel for about $4.6 billion, as the Anglo-German company seeks to expand its industrial ...