Having shipped over 15 billion Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontrollers, it's not surprising Microchip is synonymous with semiconductors and integrated circuits. For over 90,000 customers in 65 countries Microchip Technology provides a low-risk product development path, low total system cost and faster time to market for a vast array of applications and markets.
Whilst widely known for the PIC microcontroller range Microchip Technology has a broad portfolio of products including:
Peripheral Interface Controller Microcontrollers
- Covering the full performance spectrum for embedded microcontrollers including 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit families, supported by wide range of easy-to-use development tools, Touch & Gesture Sensing Solutions.
- Using award winning technology covering multiple types of implementations for touch and other input sensing applications including across the PIC Microcontroller range.
Analog & Interface Products
- Focussing on power management, amplifiers, linear, thermal management and interface Integrated Circuits (ICs).
Embedded Wireless
- Perfect for emerging applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) Microchip's broad range includes transmitters, receivers, transceivers and ZigBee, Bluetooth, Sub-GHz and Wi-Fi modules.
Development Kits
- Supporting the product portfolio is a wide range of development kits, evaluation boards, modules and software to make development faster and reduce time to market.
Founded in 1989 Microchip generated sales of 2.161 billion USD in fiscal year 2015. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, employing over 9,400 members of staff in a network of 50 sales offices, 3 manufacturing facilities and 20 development centres.
With next day delivery of products direct from stock, Microchip Technology and RS Components offer customers a broad range of products for industrial applications and new technologies.
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Featured products

Microchip's Lowest Cost In-Circuit Debugger/Programmer
- Lowest Cost Debugger/Programmer
- Supports most PIC®, dsPIC® and AVR flash MCUs
- The Snap is compatible with MPLAB X IDE version 5.05 and later
Out of The Box and into The Cloud in 30 Sec

- AVR or PIC MCU
- CryptoAuthentication™ secure element
- mikroBUS™ connector
- Low power IoT Applications using certified WiFi® Module
- Built-in Debugger, battery power option
Rapid IoT Device with Wi-Fi® Enabled Development Boards – IoT World Demonstration
The AVR-IoT WG and PIC-IoT WG combine your preferred MCU with a CryptoAuthentication™ secure element and a fully-certified Wi-Fi® network controller module to provide an easy and effective way to connect embedded applications to Google’s Cloud IoT Core platform.
Small form factor WiFi Module
Microchip's ATWINC1500 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT network controller. Easy to add-on to existing MCU solutions through its SPI-to-Wi-Fi interface.

New PIC18FXXQ10 robust, cost optimized MCU
The PIC18F Q10 family features several Core Independent Peripherals that enable tasks to be done in hardware , freeing up the CPU to do other tasks .

IoT Security provided by ATECC608A
Cryptographic co-processor with ultra secure hardware-based key storage. The device is agnostic of the MPU/MCU and requires just one I/O .

New dsPIC MCUs for PSU and Motor Control
New 100 MIPs 16-Bit Digital Signal Controller suited to PSU and Motor Control includes CAN
