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www.microchip.com

Sustainability Report

Sustainability Report

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Sustainability StatementSeptember 2010

Microchip is a values based company. We operate on an overriding Vision and Mission and eleven Guiding Values. These values dictate our day-to-day decisions and establish our corporate culture. They have stood the test of time and are rarely modified, but we recently took a deeper look at our ethics value and decided to make sure our management, our employees, our investors and our communities know where we stand regarding sustainability.

Professional Ethics are PracticedWe manage our business and treat customers, employees, shareholders, investors, suppliers,

channel partners, community and government in a manner that exemplifies our honesty, ethics and integrity. We recognize our short and long term fiscal, social and environmental responsibilities

and are proud to serve as an equal opportunity employer.

Other Guiding Values cover many aspects of corporate responsibility. Quality Comes First. Customers are our focus. Continuous improvement is essential. Employees are our greatest strength. Products and technology are our foundation. Total cycle times are optimized. Safety is never compromised. Profits and growth provide for everything we do. Communication is vital. Suppliers, representatives and distributors are our partners. Each has its place in making Microchip a company you can be proud to choose, whether as a supplier, an employee, an investor or a contributing business partner in your community.

This year’s Sustainability Report focuses on three key areas: sustainability management; Microchip products that help third parties reduce energy use and avoid pollutant emissions; and specific activities that reduce Microchip’s environmental impact.

We have created a Sustainability Management Team that is increasing overall awareness of sustainability issues for Microchip. This team has a direct line of communication to Rich Simoncic, a Vice President on my Executive Staff. The team is responsible for recent changes to the Guiding Values and for formalizing the reporting of sustainability management activities through Microchip’s Quality Management Review process. Microchip also completed its first Carbon Disclosure Project response this year. The CDP response offers transparency into Microchip’s management of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions and helped us identify opportunities for additional improvement.

Microchip offers products and design solutions that give our customers the freedom to innovate. Many customers are using our products and design solutions to reduce power consumption and resultant indirect carbon emissions. Our report offers examples that verify an evolving energy conscious world and Microchip’s contribution to it. Successive generations of Microchip PIC® microcontrollers with our eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology have enabled appliance manufacturers to significantly reduce power consumption for their applications.

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The latest generation of PIC® microcontrollers with XLP technology offers appliance manufacturers microcontrollers with eXtreme Low Power consumption for sleep current, active current, time to execute tasks and power consumed in various modes. Microchip also provides solutions for wireless communications for Smart Grid. Enabling communication within the grid is critical to presenting, monitoring and controlling usage of our resources. Microchip helps consumers reduce their energy use and indirectly avoid pollutant emissions by their utility suppliers through access to their energy information. Microchip has partnered with Google to facilitate easy development of Google PowerMeter™1 designs that enable a home owner, for example, to monitor energy consumption of an appliance, power strip or breaker box.

Microchip has expanded its program for comprehensively analyzing energy consumption at its two U.S. semiconductor fabrication facilities and its corporate headquarters campus. Reducing energy consumption is one of the implementation pillars of Microchip’s corporate sustainability program. In addition to reductions in energy consumption, we have made measured progress on water conservation and product packaging reduction.

Employees are our greatest asset. The report’s Social and Employee Programs section highlights a few examples of the dedication of our employees to Microchip, to each other and to our local communities.

Microchip performs its business for the economic well being of our shareholders, customers, employees, and the communities and countries in which we conduct business. We do this while operating in a responsible manner, with attention to both the positive and negative impact our operations and products have on the environment. Microchip actively protects the environment through compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations. In addition, we continue to improve the ways in which we conduct our operations to save resources, minimize waste and reduce our environmental impact. And we are pleased to offer products that offer our customers the freedom to innovate for an energy conscious world.

_____________________________Steve SanghiPresident and Chief Executive OfficerMicrochip Technology Incorporated

1 Google PowerMeter™ is a registered trademark of Google Inc.

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More importantly, formally collecting and analyzing our overall sustainability management, specific climate change issues and greenhouse gas emissions has increased everyone’s awareness and helped identify opportunities for additional improvement. CDP responses can be found at www.cdproject.net.

Conflict MineralsThe terms Conflict Materials, Conflict Minerals and Conflict Metals refer to minerals originating in certain regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) and neighboring countries. Armed militias operating in and around the DRC use the minerals to finance armed conflicts and inflict human rights abuses. Public corporations in the United States will soon be required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to confirm non-use of Conflict Metals or identify products using Conflict Metals. When refined or extracted, the Conflict Minerals become metals (such as gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten) that are components used in a wide variety of consumer and industrial electronics and other goods. Not all gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten come from the DRC region. Microchip is working with our supply chain to identify the country of origin of the minerals used in Microchip products as well as the related smelters/processors, depots, and traders that supply them. We believe this process is very important. However, it is also challenging. Like other semiconductor manufacturers, Microchip uses commonly sourced materials during production and therefore there are numerous supply links between Microchip and the original point of mineral extraction. Depending on our findings, Microchip will implement internal procedures and establish a course of action in partnership with its minerals supply chain to work to a resolution of the DRC concerns and ensure compliance with the new SEC requirements.

2009 Sustainability Highlights

About Microchip TechnologyMicrochip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash IP solutions, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.Microchip has a portfolio of microcontroller and analog semiconductors that enable low power consumption, wired and wireless communications protocols and opportunities to continuously increase the intelligence and capability of smart technologies for the efficient and reduced use of energy in a broad spectrum of applications, from home appliances to the energy grid. Microchip also offers leading edge embedded controller solutions to enable high energy efficiency of motors, power supplies and lighting, which can significantly lower energy usage. Microchip also offers embedded controller solutions that can be widely used to enable renewable energy, to implement solar and wind inverters.

HighlightsSustainability ManagementWe have created a Sustainability Management Team that is increasing overall awareness of sustainability issues for Microchip. This team meets at least every two weeks and has a direct line of communication to Rich Simoncic, a Vice President on CEO Steve Sanghi’s Executive Staff. The team includes representatives from corporate environmental, product environmental, quality, tactical marketing, site operations, human resources, information systems and legal. The team is responsible for recent changes to Microchip’s Guiding Values and for formalizing the reporting of sustainability management activities and goals through Microchip’s Quality Management Review process.

Carbon Disclosure ProjectMicrochip submitted its first response to the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2010(1). The CDP is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world. Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies report through the CDP. The CDP questionnaire requests extensive information regarding a company’s strategy and management of climate change issues and includes reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. We are pleased with our initial disclosure score of 70 against the CDP criteria which places us at the extreme high end of the midrange.

Carbon Disclosure Project 2010 S&P 500 Report, page 12.

1 ‘Carbon Disclosure Project’ and ‘CDP’ refers to Carbon disclosure Project, a United Kingdom company limited by guarantee, registered as a United Kingdom charity number 1122330.

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ProductsMicrochip offers products and support that helps OEM’s and customers reduce energy use and, thereby avoid indirect carbon emissions. We have microcontroller and analog semiconductors that enable low power consumption, wired and wireless communications protocols and opportunities to continuously increase the intelligence and capability of smart technologies for the efficient and reduced use of energy in a broad spectrum of applications, from home appliances to the energy grid. Microchip also offers leading edge embedded controller solutions to enable high energy efficiency of motors, power supplies and lighting, which can significantly lower energy usage. Microchip also offers embedded controller solutions that can be widely used to enable renewable energy, to implement solar and wind inverters. Successive generations of Microchip PIC® microcontrollers with eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology have enabled appliance manufacturers to significantly reduce power consumption for their applications. The latest generation of PIC microcontrollers with XLP technology offers appliance manufacturers microcontrollers with extreme low power consumption for sleep current, active current, time to execute tasks and power consumed in various modes. Microchip also provides solutions for wireless communications for the Smart Grid. Enabling communication within the grid is critical to presenting, monitoring and controlling usage of our resources. Microchip helps consumers reduce their energy use and indirectly avoid emissions by their utility suppliers through access to their energy information. Microchip has partnered with Google to enable easy development of Google PowerMeter™ designs, which allow a home owner, for example, to monitor the energy consumption of an appliance, power strip or breaker box.

nanoWatt XLPThe latest Microchip PIC microcontrollers with eXtreme Low Power technology have enabled appliance manufacturers to reduce standby losses for their applications by

as much as 75%. The typical power loss per appliance during standby use, when multiplied by the billions of appliances in houses and in commercial buildings, represents a significant percentage of total world electricity use. It is estimated that standby electricity losses contribute 5% to 8% of the CO2 emissions originating from United States residential electricity usage. XLP technology enables the next round of reductions to the standby power losses, driven by directives such as the European Union’s EcoDesign regulation adopted in December 2008. Microchip continues to expand its eXtreme Low Power PIC microcontrollers, having recently added a number of general-purpose and USB microcontrollers that drastically reduce the amount of power consumed, helping extend battery life. Now consumers can have USB functionality with significant reductions in power consumption.Microchip’s continuing and significant research and development investments into microcontrollers that use eXtreme Low Power will allow all of us to continue to use the things that make life easier while also lowering their impact on the environment. That means less energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

2009 Sustainability Highlights

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Smart GridMicrochip provides solutions for wireless communications for the Smart Grid. The proposed Smart Grid initiatives are selecting the meter as the hub of communication from the home to the utility provider. Enabling communication within the grid is key to presenting, monitoring and controlling the usage of our resources. Microchip provides development platforms to enable wireless communication, including the ZigBee® Smart Energy Profile, Wi-Fi® connectivity and Sub-GHz AMI solutions.

Google PowerMeterMicrochip is helping consumers reduce their energy usage and indirectly avoid emissions by their utility suppliers through awareness. Microchip has partnered with Google to enable easy development of Google PowerMeter designs for smart energy monitoring by

consumers that can enable a home owner, for example, to monitor the energy consumption of an appliance, power strip or breaker box. Designers now have a quick and easy way to enter the global energy-conservation market, by creating products for the measurement and monitoring of energy usage with Microchip’s Google PowerMeter Reference Implementation and its broad portfolio of 16- and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, energy-measurement ICs, Ethernet controllers, and radios for ZigBee and embedded Wi-Fi wireless networking. Google is helping to foster an ecosystem of devices and utilities that will provide consumers with access to their energy information. Microchip enables the design of those devices and utilities.

Boost Regulator FamilyMicrochip announced this past year the MCP1640 boost regulator family from its Analog and Interface Products Division. These products enable single-cell battery

operation, which reduces the number and volume of batteries consumed, product size, weight and product packaging, which in turn reduces plastic and paper consumption and lessens the fuel required for product distribution.Microchip’s products will play an even greater role in positively impacting the global environment. Our products continue to push the technology envelope, enabling our customers to significantly reduce power consumption in millions of new electronic devices every year, leading to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, lower idle and active power consumption, and less battery waste. These technologies include our industry-leading PIC microcontrollers with XLP technology for eXtreme Low Power consumption, enabling customers’ products to exceed targets set forth by green initiatives, such as One-Watt and Energy Star, and meet the new challenges of emerging energy harvesting applications. Our extensive portfolio of analog, memory and RF products also has best-in-class low power technology and provides similar benefits. In addition, our focus on quickly delivering best-in-class design solutions for high priority “green” applications (e.g., high-efficiency motors, lighting, and power supplies) speeds our customers’ time to market and their realization of the resulting environmental benefits.

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POWERMETER

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2009 Sustainability Highlights

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Measure Your Energy Consumption: Metrology SolutionsAccuracy in energy measurement is critical for utility meters as well as determining energy usage in a particular area of a facility or home. Microchip offers high accuracy energy measurement solutions using high resolution A/D converters, full energy measurement ICs and firmware in reference designs using a variety of PIC microcontrollers.

Display Your Energy Usage: LCD & Graphical SolutionsAs energy awareness increases, consumers want to understand their consumption patterns. This is easily accomplished by adding a display powered by a Microchip microcontroller with integrated controllers for graphics or segmented LCDs or an MCU connected to an external graphics controller. Building a user interface is quick and easy using Microchip’s free graphics library.

Control Your Energy Consumption: mTouch™ SensingAdding user controls is easy using capacitive touch technologies. Display-based products can utilize resistive touch screens or projected capacitance overlays for consumer friendly graphical user interfaces.

Add Intelligence When Converting Energy: Intelligent Power SuppliesConsidering all consumer products have a power supply that converts power line energy to a usable form, an efficiency improvement makes an impact to overall energy consumption. Microchip’s family of dsPIC® digital signal controllers provide the processing power and algorithms required for dynamic adjustment of control loops and predictive control algorithms.

Make Your Motor More Efficient: Advanced Motor ControlMotors account for a large portion of energy consumption in appliance and HVAC applications. Microchip provides the algorithms and tools to increase the efficiency of your motor control applications for brushless DC, permanent magnet synchronous, AC induction and brushed motors.

Communicate Your Energy Usage: Wireless & Wired ConnectivityThe ability for smart meters and end-products to share energy usage data and receive time of use events requires robust wired or wireless communications. Microchip offers 802.11, 802.15.4, sub-GHz wireless technology as well as Ethernet and USB. To speed development Microchip offers ZigBee® Pro Smart Energy Profile 1.0, ZigBee, MiWi™ and TCP/IP communication software.

Use Your Energy Smarter: PIC® Microcontrollers & MemoryMicrochip offers cost effective microcontrollers, and EEPROM and serial SRAM memory products. Battery powered applications such as energy measurement nodes benefit from nanoWatt XLP technology’s industry leading low standby power.

Smart Energy Technologies

2009 Sustainability Highlights

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2009 Sustainability HighlightsOperationsEnergy Conservation

In calendar year 2009, Microchip expanded its program for comprehensively analyzing energy consumption at its two U.S. semiconductor fabrication facilities and its corporate

headquarters campus. A broad slate of electricity reduction projects were completed, many of which qualified for capital rebates from their respective local utilities. Reducing energy consumption, whether for purchased electricity or natural gas, is one of the implementation pillars of Microchip’s corporate sustainability program. With electric utility rates expected to rise dramatically within this decade driven by mandated increases in renewable generation technology portfolios and carbon emission constraints, energy conservation projects are sound, fiscally conservative investments in the future. Overall, Microchip’s new 2009 electricity conservation projects reduced purchased electricity by 2,185,682 kWh, or roughly the energy required to power 124 U.S. single family homes for one year, and reduce indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 1,082 kilograms CO2.Microchip’s semiconductor fabrication facility in Gresham, Oregon, leads this year’s energy conservation sustainability projects by reducing 2009 consumption of natural gas by 18,143,689 cubic feet, or roughly the consumption of 148 average U.S. single family homes for one year, and reduced direct emissions of greenhouse gases by 991 metric tons CO2e. Annualized savings would nearly double these values. Waste heat from the existing heat recovery chillers was used to preheat incoming city water to the ultrapure water pretreatment system. Prior to this project, incoming city water was heated by natural gas boilers.

Water ConservationWorld-wide, Microchip’s facility engineers completed projects in 2009 that reduced consumption of incoming city water by more than 7.1 million gallons. Improvements were made that reduced use in landscaping, cooling towers, and sanitary fixtures, and through recovery and recycle of certain waters from the ultrapure water systems.

Product Packaging ReductionAlthough semiconductor devices are small, their protective packaging can be extensive. Most semiconductor devices are shipped by air from assembly facilities in Asia to regional distribution centers and customers all over the world. A long term project cooperatively lead by Microchip’s Thailand assembly facility and Winnersh, UK, European Union distribution center to remove inner cartons or use smaller inner cartons made significant progress this year. We believe that removal of the inner carton or using smaller cartons will ultimately reduce the as-shipped product packaging weight by 8%, or approximately 34,375 kg. In 2009 the team worked with our regional distribution centers and customers to revise specific packaging requirements avoiding shipping 6,761 kg of cardboard, saving about 126 trees and reducing our freight-related greenhouse gas emissions.

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Social and Employee ProgramsSustaining our Microchip Work Family − Employees are our Greatest Asset

Sustainability is often thought of strictly in regard to environmental achievements. But sustainability includes three primary areas of environment, business and people. At Microchip, Employees are our greatest strength. It is one of our Guiding Values and its importance was exemplified through the global economic crisis. Despite low demand for product due to the worldwide economic crisis, Microchip did not lay off any employees anywhere during the economic crisis. Instead, as an example, our U.S. manufacturing employees reduced schedules with many weeks off without pay. Technical and support employees were on pay cuts and periodic furloughs. Despite reductions to take home pay, many employees contributed to a fund used to assist other employees. Employees worldwide were offered resources to manage the challenges of the economic crisis with sensitivity to cultural issues. In Thailand for example, a consulting clinic with psychiatrists to talk to employees with debt problems was made available. Microchip made a focused effort to keep employees informed and lines of communication open to minimize rumors and unnecessary stress. Despite significant cuts to personal income, Microchip earned “Best Employer” awards in Arizona, United States, and in Thailand in 2009. Together, we shared many sacrifices and kept everyone employed and with their benefits such as health insurance at a time when the likelihood of alternative employment was extremely low.

Suggested by Microchip employees as a way to beneficially use an easily accessible portion of the beautiful Fab 4 campus, our employees measured and plowed individual gardening plots this spring. So far twelve plots are being cultivated in the popular program growing vegetables and flowers for an early Northwest harvest. Microchip provides water and communal gardening tools and employees take care of the rest.

Microchip Thailand – Happy Workplace, Community Involvement

Microchip Thailand has established a reputation as an engaged workforce. The employees are active in social endeavors that encourage a sense of involvement with peers and the community. There are 17 active clubs that include: Aerobics, Badminton, Bowling, Charity, Engine, Environment Good Governance, Football, Golf, Mind Spa, Mom, Music, Muslim, Ozone, Photo, Rally, Smile, and Snooker. The Charity Club has accomplished many things:■ Charity event at Pai■ Scholarship program and International Micro-Robot

Sponsor with KMITL (King Mongkut Institute of Technology Lad ka bang)

■ Student trainee program with KMITL■ Institute and university visits to Microchip Thailand■ Red Cross/blood donation with Phumiphol Hospital■ Computer donation(s) to Wat Na Korn Nuengkiat School■ Anti-drug program with Suwintawong CupHappiness and community involvement are an important part of Thai culture. Microchip Thailand has launched many programs to get employees engaged and actively contributing to the local and academic communities.

Gresham, Oregon (Fab 4) Community Garden

Granting Scholarships: June 21, 2010

2009 Sustainability Highlights

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2009 Annual Performance Metrics

2009 USA Recycle

Category Sub-Category ChandlerHQ Campus

Tempe Fab 2

GreshamFab 4 Units

Paper and Cardboard

CorrugatedWhite ledger paperMixed paperConfidential paper (shredded)

2,00918,06013,88027,945

2,00951,058

47014,260

18,6930

18,6935,585

lbs

Plastics Plastics – mixed (wafer boxes, tubes/rails, containers) 49,695 23,898 30,159 lbs

Metals Aluminum cansScrap metals

59526,013

5348,074

025,915 lbs

E-WasteUniversal waste batteries and used lampsE-Waste (CRT monitors & misc.)E-Waste (CPU – charitable donation)

2,18217,4523,776

2,6891,714418

2,618184

2,842lbs

Site-Specific Recycle

Precious metalsCaF2 sludgeCopper sulfateScrap wood tool crates and pallets

2,846000

000

3,300

0304,84014,66450,860

lbs

On-Site Reuse Equivalent

Boise Aspen 50% PCF white ledger paperGeorgia Pacific enMotion 40% PCF paper hand towel

21,0007,063

05,919

00

lbs post consumer fiber

Rapidly Renewable Resource: Bath Tissue

Unisource U23121e 100% LEED-qualified rapidly renewable resource fiber 5,801 4,655 0 lbs rapidly

renewal fiber

2009 Thailand Assembly Recycle

Category Sub-Category Thailand Assembly Units

E-Waste CPU towers – charitable donation 2,149 lbs

Site-Specific RecyclePrecious metals (off-site reclamation)Scrap metalsOn-site reuse in printers: A4 white ledger paper

25,72827,90913,386

lbs

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2009 Facility Operations New Sustainability Project Achievements

Category Project Description 2009 Savings Units

Chandler HQ Campus

C1 Building: Continue lamp replacement project 32 watt with 25 watt 58,500 kWh

C2 Building: Continue lamp replacement project 32 watt with 25 watt 8,910 kWh

C3 Building: Continue lamp replacement project 32 watt with 25 watt 45,540 kWh

C1 Building: Remove redundant heat exhaust fan #52 7,428 kWh

Replumbing allowing shutdown of chiller #5 during low temperature months643,680 kWh

725,760 Gallons

Tempe Fab 2C1: Building: Installed RO blend tank accommodating capture of reject waters 576,000 Gallons

T1: Partial roof materials replacement 21,199 kWh

Gresham Fab 4

Install heat exchanger on large chillers - recovered heat preheats city water to RO, UPW pretreatment 18,143,689 Cubic Feet NG

Building 2 west office area lighting retrofit 263,701 kWh

Building 2 support area lighting retrofit 732,503 kWh

Reduce site irrigation 4,000,000 Gallons

ThailandAssembly

Assorted projects: city water reduced 1,865,656 Gallons

Product Packaging Materials Reduction Projects – Inner cardboard carton elimination project – MSL-1 label elimination project – Chain of custody envelope elimination project

6,761360,00054,410

KgEach, 3"x3"

Each, folded A4-size

2009 Annual Performance Metrics

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Information subject to change. The Microchip name and logo, the Microchip logo, dsPIC, MPLAB and PIC are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. Google PowerMeter is a registered trademark of Google Inc. © 2010 Energizer. Energizer and other marks are trademarks owned by Energizer. All other trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective companies. © 2010, Microchip Technology Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. 10/10DS01290B

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SupportMicrochip is committed to supporting its customers in developing products faster and more efficiently. We maintain a worldwide network of field applications engineers and technical support ready to provide product and system assistance. In addition, the following service areas are available at www.microchip.com:■ Support link provides a way to get questions

answered fast: http://support.microchip.com■ Sample link offers evaluation samples of any

Microchip device: http://sample.microchip.com■ Forum link provides access to knowledge base and

peer help: http://forum.microchip.com■ Buy link provides locations of Microchip Sales Channel Partners: www.microchip.com/sales

TrainingIf additional training interests you, then Microchip can help. We continue to expand our technical training options, offering a growing list of courses and in-depth curriculum locally, as well as significant online resources – whenever you want to use them.■ Regional Training Centers: www.microchip.com/rtc■ MASTERs Conferences: www.microchip.com/masters■ Worldwide Seminars: www.microchip.com/seminars■ eLearning: www.microchip.com/webseminars■ Resources from our Distribution and Third Party Partners www.microchip.com/training

AMERICASAtlantaTel: 678-957-9614BostonTel: 774-760-0087ChicagoTel: 630-285-0071ClevelandTel: 216-447-0464DallasTel: 972-818-7423DetroitTel: 248-538-2250KokomoTel: 765-864-8360Los AngelesTel: 949-462-9523Santa Clara Tel: 408-961-6444Toronto Mississauga, Ontario Tel: 905-673-0699

EUROPEAustria - WelsTel: 43-7242-2244-39Denmark - Copenhagen Tel: 45-4450-2828France - ParisTel: 33-1-69-53-63-20Germany - MunichTel: 49-89-627-144-0Italy - MilanTel: 39-0331-742611Netherlands - DrunenTel: 31-416-690399Spain - MadridTel: 34-91-708-08-90UK - WokinghamTel: 44-118-921-5869

ASIA/PACIFICAustralia - SydneyTel: 61-2-9868-6733China - BeijingTel: 86-10-8528-2100China - ChengduTel: 86-28-8665-5511China - ChongqingTel: 86-23-8980-9588China - Hong Kong SARTel: 852-2401-1200China - NanjingTel: 86-25-8473-2460China - QingdaoTel: 86-532-8502-7355China - ShanghaiTel: 86-21-5407-5533China - ShenyangTel: 86-24-2334-2829China - ShenzhenTel: 86-755-8203-2660China - WuhanTel: 86-27-5980-5300China - XiamenTel: 86-592-2388138China - XianTel: 86-29-8833-7252China - ZhuhaiTel: 86-756-3210040

Sales Office ListingASIA/PACIFICIndia - BangaloreTel: 91-80-3090-4444India - New DelhiTel: 91-11-4160-8631India - PuneTel: 91-20-2566-1512Japan - YokohamaTel: 81-45-471- 6166Korea - DaeguTel: 82-53-744-4301Korea - SeoulTel: 82-2-554-7200Malaysia - Kuala LumpurTel: 60-3-6201-9857Malaysia - PenangTel: 60-4-227-8870Philippines - ManilaTel: 63-2-634-9065SingaporeTel: 65-6334-8870Taiwan - Hsin ChuTel: 886-3-6578-300Taiwan - KaohsiungTel: 886-7-213-7830Taiwan - TaipeiTel: 886-2-2500-6610Thailand - BangkokTel: 66-2-694-13519/1/10