SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(® )Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced it has received the 2012 Best Partner Award from ASUS.

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Atmel received the award for its superior products and exceptional customer and technical support.

"We are pleased to award Atmel with one of our 2012 Best Partner Awards," said Ricky Tzeng, Purchasing Vice President, ASUSTeK. "Atmel has continued to provide outstanding products, along with excellent customer and technical support to ensure we meet our specific new product design requirements for touch controller products. Atmel's commitment to ASUS is widely evident throughout our company, and their end-to-end support was a major factor in enabling us to get new Microsoft Windows 8 mobile products to market smoothly without any delays and to meet customer demand without any interruptions. They are a valued partner!"

"We are honored to receive such a prestigious award from ASUS," said Richard Lin, Vice President of Asia Pacific, Atmel Corporation. "Atmel has a long history of providing some of the most innovative products on the market and to providing exceptional customer support. We look forward to collaborating with ASUS on future designs."

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Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, 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 industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets.

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