The Atmel® Corporation from its inception and through years have been engaged in the various designs of microcontrollers that has provided an assortment of organizations both in the public and private sector with novel production and thus elevating the economic and business infrastructure for betterment and rosy future.

In the same regard, the Atmel® Corporation being an acclaimed entity throughout the globe gratifying the high need of the clientele and gratifying the changing mood of the ages through keeping the pace through its multifarious designs and manufacture of microcontrollers and advanced logic announced here today that the Korean Finance Telecommunication & Clearings Institute or the KFTC,   the premiere organization of Korea has awarded Atmel in the recent days. It has been stated also in this respect, that the very certificate states that Atmel's manufacturing processes and security act in accordance with with the basic demand of the respective infrastructure and the Koreans KFTC standards.

It is to be noted in this respect that the KFTC was established in the year 1986, comprised with barely 11 general members, 10 associate members and 14 special participants that included the Korean and foreign banks. Though the years this organization has been able to prove its expertise and by virtue of its illustrious records aims to make available consistent, protected and innovative payment services in Korea. There is a great hope in the Korean mainland that with the gradual elevation of its buoyant and fast moving economy it will be within the coning years included in the topmost category of the economically powerful countries. In tins respect the organizations on which the greatest expectation rests, the Korean Finance Telecommunication & Clearings Institute or the KFTC happens to be one of those leading and efficient entities.

Atmel, founded in 1984, is a renowned leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. The company through influencing one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, has been able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions. It is recorded as one of the minority elite new companies who are capable of incorporating dense nonvolatile memory, logic and analog functions on a single chip. The Atmel chips are manufactured through the usage of the most advanced wafer processes that includes BiCMOS, CMOS and Silicon Germanium or SiGe technologies. It is also found to be concentrating on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

When Benoit Makowka, the venerated product line manager for the Banking and ID product of the Atmel® Corporation was asked by this correspondent he stated, "Atmel is the worldwide leader in shipment of secure microcontroller products for the banking industry. In addition we are happy to see new opportunities to extend our business in Korea where we have seen the emergence of very innovative products and services from financial institutions," he concluded.