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[Taha Mehmood]

Dear All

This is just to let you all give an indication of how certain
companies related to National ID cards sector are faring in market
these days.

Regards

Taha

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 ATML... Expected To Be Higher After Earnings Releases on Wednesday

Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) designs, develops, manufactures, and
markets a range of semiconductor integrated circuits (IC) products.
Its products include microcontrollers, logic, mixed-signal,
nonvolatile memory, and radio frequency (RF) components. The company
operates in four segments: Microcontrollers, Application Specific
Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Nonvolatile Memories, and RF and
Automotive. The Microcontrollers segment provides various proprietary
and standard microcontrollers, which contain embedded nonvolatile
memory and integrated analog peripherals. This segment also offers
products for military and aerospace applications. The ASIC segment
offers application specific ICs designed to meet specialized
requirements for their high performance devices in various
applications. It also include a range of products that provide
security for digital data transactions, including smart cards for
mobile phones, set top boxes, and banking and national identity cards.
In addition, this segment offers customer specific products for space
applications, power management, and secure memory products. The
Nonvolatile Memories segment consists of serial interface electrically
erasable programmable read-only memory and serial interface flash
memory products. This segment also includes parallel interface flash
memories, as well as mature parallel interface electrically erasable
programmable read-only memory and erasable programmable read-only
memory devices. The RF and Automotive segment includes products
designed for the automotive industry. It produces and sells wireless
and wired devices for industrial, consumer, and automotive
applications; and provides foundry services that produce RF products
for the mobile telecommunications market. Atmel Corporation sells its
products to original equipment manufacturers directly; and indirectly
through distributors in the United States, Asia, Europe, and
internationally. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered
in San Jose, California.