SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that Steven Laub, Atmel's President and Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Twelfth Annual Needham Growth Stock Conference in New York City on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

The presentation will be webcast live and archived on the Atmel investor relations website at http://www.atmel.com/ir .

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Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of capacitive touch solutions, 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.

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