Microcontroller Market Resurges
A full-blown recovery in the microcontroller sector is underway as sales to industrial and automotive customers rebound amidst the upturn in the global economy. And it isn’t confined to just the 32-bit market.
The 8-bit sector is also experiencing such tremendous growth that one supplier, Microchip Technology Inc., in Chandler, Ariz., has had to quickly step up efforts to ramp manufacturing. “Demand for our innovative new 8-bit microcontroller products introduced over the last three years have been so strong, it has outstripped our ability to ramp manufacturing fast enough,” said Ganesh Moorthy, chief operating officer of Microchip, in its recent conference call with analysts.