Microchip Technology Incorporated · Chandler, AZ United States ·(NASDAQ (GS): MCHP)

While bigger semiconductor makers fight over your PC and mobile phone, Microchip Technology has probably chipped its way into your car, your office copier, and even your wallet. The semiconductor maker offers a variety of embedded devices, including eight-bit microcontrollers (it's one of the top makers of them worldwide); specialty memory products such as electrically erasable programmable read-only memories; and KEELOQ-brand code-hopping devices used in keyless locks, garage door openers, and smart cards. Its chips are used by tens of thousands of customers in the automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, medical, and networking markets. Microchip makes three-quarters of its sales outside the US. To read the full description, subscribe now.