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For Embargo: July 30, 2001

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MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY FORMS ANALOG & INTERFACE PRODUCTS DIVISION

Rolls Out 250 Analog Products For Embedded Systems Applications

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 30, 2001 [: MCHP] — Inc. today announced it has formed the Analog & Interface Products Division which offers more than 250 high-performance mixed-signal, , thermal management and interface solutions for embedded systems applications. The new division results from the integration of TelCom of Mountain View, Calif., which the Company acquired in January 2001, with Microchip’s own stand-alone analog and interface products.

“Microchip acquired TelCom to greatly accelerate our internal efforts to expand the Company’s portfolio of stand-alone analog products as well as provide additional product functionality,” said Steve Sanghi, CEO and President. “With all aspects of TelCom successfully integrated into our enterprise, the Analog & Interface Products Division is focused on ‘attaching’ these products to more than 30,000 current embedded control customers and developing new products for growth markets where Microchip has not participated.”

Rich Simoncic is the Vice President responsible for the Analog & Interface Products Division. He has held positions as Vice President of the Microperipheral Products Division, Vice President of the Memory & Specialty Products Division and Director of Yield Device and Manufacturing Engineering. He has been with Microchip since the company’s inception in 1989. The Company also named Bryan Liddiard Vice President of Marketing for the Analog & Interface Products Division. - MORE - ADD ONE – MICROCHIP FORMS ANALOG & INTERFACE PRODUCTS DIVISION

Microchip’s portfolio consists of more than 250 thermal management, power management, linear, interface, mixed-signal and power driver solutions. The Division is chartered with designing, developing and launching new product offerings in each of these areas to target high-growth markets, such as automotive, portable/battery-powered and networking.

• Linear/Mixed-Signal. Microchip’s highly integrated solutions combine various analog functions into space-savings packages. These devices include analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, digital potentiometers, operational amplifiers, comparators, frequency-to-voltage converters, and voltage-to-frequency converters.

• Power Management. Microchip’s power management products help to regulate and control voltage and current in a multitude of different areas. Products include LDO and switching regulators, charge pumps, PWM controllers, CPU/system supervisors and voltage detectors, battery chargers and MOSFET drivers.

• Thermal Management. Microchip is a leader in thermal management analog circuits with a wide variety of devices that help monitor and warn of fault conditions, solve thermal management problems, and protect heat-sensitive systems. Serving a broad spectrum of applications, these products include temperature sensors and brushless DC fan controllers.

• Interface. Microchip offers innovative silicon products to support a variety of interfaces used to transmit data to and from embedded control systems. The interface products support Controller Area Network (CAN) and IrDA ® Standard protocol. - MORE - ADD TWO – MICROCHIP FORMS ANALOG & INTERFACE PRODUCTS DIVISION

Microchip Technology Inc. manufactures the popular PICmicro ® field-programmable RISC , which serve 8- and 16-bit embedded control applications, and a broad spectrum of high-performance linear and mixed-signal, power management and thermal management devices. The Company also offers complementary microperipheral products including interface devices; microID  RFID devices; serial ; and the patented KEELOQ ® security devices. This synergistic product portfolio targets thousands of applications and a growing demand for high-performance designs in the automotive, communications, computing, consumer and industrial control markets. The Company's quality systems are ISO 9001 (1994 version) and QS9000 (1998 version) certified. Microchip is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona with design facilities in Mountain View, and Bangalore, India; semiconductor fabrication facilities in Tempe and Chandler, Arizona and Puyallup, Washington; and assembly and test operations near Bangkok, Thailand. Microchip employs approximately 2,950 people worldwide and has sales offices throughout Asia, Europe, Japan and the Americas. More information on the Company can be found at www.microchip.com. ####

Note: The Microchip name and logo, PIC, PICmicro, MPLAB and KEELOQ are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries. dsPIC is a trademark of Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries. I 2C is a trademark of Philips Corporation. SPI is a trademark of Motorola Inc. IrDA is a registered trademark of Infrared Data Association. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.