Atmel
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Atmel was a semiconductor company best known for its microcontrollers and integrated circuits widely used in embedded systems and consumer electronics.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atmel canonical | 4 |
| Atmel Corporation | 2 |
| ASF (Atmel Software Framework) | 1 |
| Atmel Germany | 1 |
| Atmel Norway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7396634 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atmel Context triple: [Microchip Technology, acquired, Atmel]
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A.
Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is a leading American semiconductor company known for its microcontrollers, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits used in a wide range of embedded control applications.
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B.
Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
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C.
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, formerly part of Motorola, known for producing embedded processors and microcontrollers for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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D.
STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a major European semiconductor manufacturer known for producing a wide range of integrated circuits and electronic components for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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E.
Microchip ATSAMD21
Microchip ATSAMD21 is a low-power 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller widely used in maker and embedded applications for its integrated peripherals and ease of use.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Atmel Target entity description: Atmel was a semiconductor company best known for its microcontrollers and integrated circuits widely used in embedded systems and consumer electronics.
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A.
Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is a leading American semiconductor company known for its microcontrollers, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits used in a wide range of embedded control applications.
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B.
Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies is a leading German semiconductor manufacturer known for its automotive, power, and security electronics solutions.
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C.
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, formerly part of Motorola, known for producing embedded processors and microcontrollers for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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D.
STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a major European semiconductor manufacturer known for producing a wide range of integrated circuits and electronic components for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications.
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E.
Microchip ATSAMD21
Microchip ATSAMD21 is a low-power 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller widely used in maker and embedded applications for its integrated peripherals and ease of use.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fabless semiconductor company
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semiconductor company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microchip Technology ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnounced | 2016 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompleted | 2016 ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
Internet of Things devices
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automotive electronics ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ industrial control ⓘ |
| competitor |
Microchip Technology
ⓘ
NXP Semiconductors ⓘ STMicroelectronics ⓘ Texas Instruments ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
George Perlegos
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former Intel engineers ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1984 ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Atmel Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Atmel
Atmel Norway ⓘ
linked to:
Atmel
|
| headquartersLocation | San Jose, California ⓘ |
| industry |
integrated circuits
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microcontrollers ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ARM-based microcontrollers
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AVR microcontrollers ⓘ consumer electronics components ⓘ embedded systems components ⓘ |
| notableUse | Arduino boards based on AVR microcontrollers ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation | San Jose, California ⓘ |
| product |
AT91 ARM microcontrollers
ⓘ
ATmega microcontrollers ⓘ
linked to:
AVR microcontrollers
ATtiny microcontrollers ⓘ
linked to:
AVR microcontrollers
ATxmega microcontrollers ⓘ
linked to:
AVR microcontrollers
AVR 8-bit microcontroller family ⓘ
linked to:
AVR microcontrollers
EEPROM memory chips ⓘ Flash memory chips ⓘ RF and wireless transceivers ⓘ SAM ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers ⓘ programmable logic devices ⓘ security ICs ⓘ touch controller ICs ⓘ |
| status | defunct as independent company ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| successor | Microchip Technology ⓘ |
| technology |
ARM Cortex-M architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
ARM Cortex-M series
AVR RISC architecture ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | ATML ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Atmel Description of subject: Atmel was a semiconductor company best known for its microcontrollers and integrated circuits widely used in embedded systems and consumer electronics.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Atmel
linked to: Atmel
linked to: Atmel
linked to: Atmel