The 1.8-volt capability of the AT25DF081 solves the additional, common issues that plague any portable design. By having a complete system operate at a unified 1.8 volts, system designs can be fully optimized to provide the lowest power consumption and longest battery life possible. Precious board space, weight, and system cost can also be significantly reduced by simplifying the embedded power-supply circuitry and eliminating the need for an additional LDO (low dropout regulator) and associated passive components that would otherwise be necessary for a 3-volt Serial Flash memory. In addition, since the AT25DF081 can operate at the same voltage as the ASIC or processor/controller, there is no need for level shifters on control and data lines, resulting in further savings.

"Ever since Atmel introduced the world's first Serial Flash in 1997, we have been a consistent leader in Serial Flash memories and have continued to work diligently to align our product roadmaps with our customers', ensuring that we define the right products to meet their future design needs," stated Richard De Caro, Atmel's Director of Strategic Marketing for its Memory Business Unit. "The AT25DF081 is a clear case in which we listened to our customers and developed a product that allows them to design their applications to be smaller, lighter, and last longer, all at a lower cost and without sacrificing performance," continued De Caro.

Availability and Pricing

The AT25DF081 is available now for both samples and production volumes. The AT25DF081 is offered in three different package options comprising of an 8-lead, 150-mil wide "narrow-body" SOIC, an 8-contact, 5mm x 6mm x 0.6mm Ultra Thin DFN (UDFN), and an extremely small, 0.4mm thin 11-ball dBGA (WLCSP). In 10,000 unit quantities, prices start at $0.66, $0.70, and $0.83 for the three respective package options.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, and others, are registered trademarks, or trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information:

Atmel's AT25DF081 product information may be retrieved at, http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=4220 For further information on Atmel's Serial Flash offerings, visit http://www.atmel.com/products/SFlash/default.asp

     Press Contacts:
     Richard De Caro, Director of Strategic Marketing -- Memory Business Unit
     Tel: (+1) 916-933-1033, Email:  richard.decaro@atmel.com

     Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
     Tel: (+1) 408 487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

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The ATtiny48/88 operates from 1.8 to 5.5 volts and features a 10-bit ADC, SPI, I2C interface, internal temperature sensor, and have up to 12 MIPS throughput at 12 MHz. Like all the other AVR microcontrollers, the ATtiny48/88 features an on-chip debug system for easy, fast, and robust development.

"Atmel's successful picoPower megaAVR(R) devices offer the best-in-class power saving features and performance. The ATtiny48/88 is now extending the reach, offering an affordable solution for applications that require very low power consumption and are very cost sensitive. Our customers in the consumer electronics market want to develop products that consume less and less power, and the new ATtiny48/88 are a perfect fit," said Jukka Eskelinen, Director of tinyAVR Product Marketing.

All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools. The AVR Studio(R) AVR integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel's web site.

Availability and Pricing

Samples for the ATtiny48 are available now, the ATtiny88 will be available in 3Q2008 in the following packages QFN32, QFN28, TQFP32 and PDIP28. Volume prices for 10k units are USD $0.80 for the ATtiny48 and USD $1.04 for the ATtiny88.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, AVR(R), tinyAVR(R), megaAVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks, picoPower(TM) and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information:

Atmel's AVR product information is available at http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR

Atmel Press Contacts:
    Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers
    Tel: +33-2-40-18-18-87, Email: philippe.faure@atmel.com

    Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
    Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR

Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers,
+33-2-40-18-18-87, philippe.faure@atmel.com; or Helen Perlegos, Public
Relations, +1-408-487-2963, hperlegos@atmel.com, both of Atmel Corporation

The AT91SAM3 family has Atmel's distinctive uniform peripheral register structure that simplifies application programming, and enables software modules to be easily transferred from one family member to another. This uniformity of peripheral programming extends to development tools from Atmel's established ecosystem of industry-leading third-party suppliers. It is a major aid to application development.

Alfredo Vadillo, Atmel's Managing Director for ARM Microcontrollers, commented, "The ARM Cortex-M3 processor gives our customers the option of taking advantage of the latest developments in ARM's 32-bit RISC technology in terms of performance and power consumption, together with all the benefits of the AT91SAM family architecture and IP, as well as the ARM ecosystem. The addition of the ARM Cortex-M3 processor strengthens Atmel's leadership in the fast growing embedded 32-bit microcontroller market. It complements our current market-leading product offering of AT91SAM and AVR32 microcontrollers."

"Atmel's decision to add the Cortex-M3 processor to its existing licenses for the ARM7TDMI, the ARM926EJ-S and the ARM1176JZ-S processors indicates its on-going commitment to the ARM architecture," said Eric Schorn, VP Marketing, Processor Division, ARM. "Atmel joins the growing ranks of ARM Cortex-M3 processor implementers, and reinforces our architecture as the reference for 32-bit microcontrollers."

Atmel is today one of the industry's leading suppliers of microcontrollers with a wide range of products. The ARM Cortex-M3 processor will be used to expand today's product range of 8051, AVR(R), AVR32, and ARM7(TM) and ARM9(TM) family-based microcontrollers into new markets.

Availability

Atmel's AT91SAM3 Flash microcontroller family based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor will be available in 4Q 2008.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, AVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks or trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. ARM and ARM7TDMI are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Cortex, ARM926EJ-S, ARM1176JZF-S, ARM7 and ARM9 are trademarks of ARM Limited. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information:

Atmel's AT91SAM product information may be retrieved at: http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91/

     Atmel Press Contacts:
     Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset
     Tel: (+33) (0)4 42 53 61 50, Email: peter.bishop@atmel.com
     Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
     Tel: +1 (408) 487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

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