Atmel Schedules First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call for May 4

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 28  /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, will hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 2 p.m. PT to discuss the company's first quarter 2010 financial results. Participating in the call will be Steven Laub, Atmel President and CEO and Stephen Cumming, VP Finance and CFO. The earnings release will be issued at the close of market that day.

The conference call will be webcast live and can also be accessed by dialing 1-800-374- 0405.  The conference ID number is 70682721 and participants are encouraged to initiate their calls at least 10 minutes in advance of the 2 p.m. PT start time to ensure a timely connection. The webcast and earnings release will be accessible at http://www.atmel.com/ir/.

A replay of the May 4, 2010 conference call will be available the same day at approximately 5:00 p.m. PT and will run for 48 hours. The replay access numbers are 1-800-642-1687 within the U.S. and 1-706-645-9291 for all other locations. The access code is 70682721.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of capacitive touch solutions, microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

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