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Item 1A. Risk Factors," beginning below at page 14, and elsewhere in this Form 10-K. Although we believe that the matters reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We disclaim any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement. In this Form 10-K, "we," "us," "our," and "Microchip" each refers to Microchip Technology Incorporated and its subsidiaries.
Item 1. Business
Overview
We develop, manufacture and sell smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions used by our customers for a wide variety of applications. With over 35 years of technology leadership, our broad product portfolio offers a Total System Solution for our customers that can provide a large portion of the silicon requirements in their applications. With over 30 years of technology leadership, our broad product portfolio is a Total System Solution (TSS) for our customers that can provide a large portion of the silicon requirements in their applications. TSS is a combination of hardware, software and services which help our customers increase their revenue, reduce their costs and manage their risks compared to other solutions. Our strategic focus includes general purpose and specialized mixed-signal microcontrollers, microprocessors, analog, FPGA, data center, networking, and memory products. In July 2024, we entered the 64-bit mixed-signal microprocessor market furthering our expansion beyond 32-bit architecture. Our synergistic product portfolio empowers disruptive growth trends, including AI/ML, data centers, edge computing and IoT, E-mobility, networking and connectivity, and sustainability in key end markets such as automotive, aerospace and defense, communications, consumer appliances, data centers and computing, and industrial.
Industry Background
Competitive pressures require OEMs to expand product functionality and provide differentiation while maintaining or reducing cost. To address these requirements, manufacturers often use integrated circuit-based embedded control systems that enable them to:
•differentiate their products
•replace less efficient electromechanical control devices
•reduce the number of components in their system
•add product functionality
•reduce the system level energy consumption
•make systems safer to operate
•reduce the consumption of natural resources
•connect their products to other devices
•add security to their products
•decrease time to market for their products
•significantly reduce product cost
Embedded control systems have been incorporated into thousands of products and subassemblies in a wide variety of applications and markets worldwide, including:
•actuators
•applications requiring touch buttons, touch screens and graphical user interfaces
•automotive access control
•automotive comfort, safety, advanced driver assistance systems, networking, information and entertainment applications
•avionics
•communication infrastructure systems
•consumer electronics
•data center solutions
•defense and military hardware
•electric vehicles
•handheld tools
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•home and building automation
•industrial automation
•IP routers and Ethernet switches
•large and small home appliances
•medical devices
•motor controls units
•portable computers and accessories
•power supplies
•residential and commercial security systems
•robotics
•satellites and spacecrafts
•scale-up and scale-across systems for AI infrastructure
•smart home, IoT and AI/ML edge devices
•smart meters and energy monitoring
•storage and server systems
•user interface and control panels
•video surveillance systems
•wireless communication
Embedded control systems typically incorporate a mixed-signal microcontroller, microprocessor or FPGA as the principal active, and sometimes sole, component. A mixed-signal microcontroller is a self-contained computer-on-a-chip consisting of a central processing unit, often with on-board non-volatile program memory for program storage, random access memory for data storage and various analog and digital input/output peripheral capabilities. In addition to the mixed-signal microcontroller, a complete embedded control system often incorporates application-specific software, various analog, power, mixed-signal, timing, connectivity, security and non-volatile memory components such as EEPROMs and Flash memory. In addition to the mixed-signal microcontroller, a complete embedded control system often incorporates application-specific software, various analog, mixed-signal, timing, connectivity, security and non-volatile memory components such as EEPROMs and Flash memory.
Mixed-signal microcontrollers are primarily available in 8-bit through 32-bit architectures. 8-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers remain very cost-effective and easy to use for a wide range of high-volume embedded control applications and, as a result, continue to represent a significant portion of the overall mixed-signal microcontroller market. 16-bit and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontrollers provide higher performance and functionality, and are generally found in more complex embedded control applications. FPGAs are programmable integrated circuits that are used to implement complex logic functions and can be re-programmed at any time, allowing for multiple implementations and revisions during or after the customer system is manufactured. Some versions of FPGAs also include a mixed-signal microcontroller or microprocessor core to provide additional system on chip functionality to compute intensive tasks. Some versions of 5Table of ContentsFPGAs also include a mixed-signal microcontroller or microprocessor core to provide additional system on chip functionality to compute intensive tasks. Microprocessors integrate 32-bit (or above) central processing units (CPUs) with various high performance peripherals, such as communications and graphics, and execute code from external memory, typically dynamic random access memory. In July 2024, we entered the 64-bit mixed-signal microprocessor market furthering our expansion beyond 32-bit architecture. 64-bit multi-core microprocessors offer even greater computational power and are often utilized in applications requiring advanced processing capabilities, such as data-intensive tasks and sophisticated system operations such as Linux.
Our Products
Our strategic focus is on providing cost-effective embedded control solutions that also offer the advantages of small size, high performance, extreme low power usage, wide voltage range operation, mixed-signal integration, and ease of development, thus enabling timely and cost-effective integration of our solutions by our customers in their end products.
Mixed-signal Microcontrollers
We offer a broad family of proprietary general purpose mixed-signal microcontroller products, with significant analog and mixed-signal functionality incorporated within them, which are marketed under multiple brand names. We believe that our mixed-signal microcontroller product families provide leading function and performance characteristics in the worldwide market. We target the 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontroller and 32-bit and 64-bit embedded mixed-signal microprocessor markets. We target the 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit mixed-signal microcontroller and 32-bit embedded mixed-signal microprocessor markets. In July 2024, we entered the 64-bit mixed-signal microprocessor market with our PIC64 family of high-performance multi-core processors. Our PIC64 family consists of 64-bit RISC-V microprocessors designed for high-performance, mission-critical applications across industrial, aerospace, defense and space sectors. These products integrate networking, virtualization support, AI/ML acceleration, security and high-speed networking and are designed to handle mixed-criticality workloads, requiring both real-time determinism and high-level operating systems, like Linux, simultaneously. We
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also offer specialized mixed-signal microcontrollers for automotive, industrial, computing, communications, power supplies, motor control, human machine interface, security, wired connectivity and wireless connectivity applications.
Microchip is an industry leader in product families including storage controllers, memory controllers and switches designed to address high-performance compute, storage, and connectivity requirements in AI data center and enterprise infrastructure. Our storage controller portfolio includes Microchip Adaptec® and Microsemi® branded storage controllers, SAS/SATA expanders, and accelerators that enable reliable SAS/SATA and NVMe® storage connectivity, data protection, and workload offload. Our memory controller portfolio includes Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) and PCIe® memory expansion and management devices that support disaggregated and scalable memory architectures. Our switch and retimer portfolio includes PCIe® Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 5, and Gen 6 solutions, including Switchtec™ branded products, that provide high-speed, low-latency interconnect, signal conditioning, and fabric expansion for server, storage, accelerator, and networking platforms.
We leverage our circuit design, process technologies, development tools, applications knowledge, software libraries, and manufacturing experiences to enable our customers to implement various embedded control functions in their end systems with our mixed-signal microcontrollers. We leverage our circuit design, process technologies, development tools, applications knowledge, and manufacturing experiences to enable our customers to implement various embedded control functions in their end systems with our mixed-signal microcontrollers.
Analog
Our analog product line consists of several families including power management, linear, mixed-signal, high voltage, thermal management, discrete diodes and MOSFETs, RF, gate drivers, safety, security, timing, application specific standard products (ASSPs), USB, ethernet, wireless and other interface products.
We market and sell our analog product line into our mixed-signal microcontroller, microprocessor and FPGA customer base, and to customers who use mixed-signal microcontrollers and FPGA products from other suppliers and to customers who use other products that may not fit our traditional mixed-signal microcontroller, FPGA and memory products customer base.
Other
Our other product line includes FPGA products, royalties associated with licenses for the use of our SuperFlash and other technologies, sales of our intellectual property, fees for engineering services, memory products, timing systems, manufacturing services (wafer foundry and assembly and test subcontracting), legacy application specific integrated circuits, and products for aerospace applications.
Our portfolio of mid-range and low-end FPGAs is recognized for its low power consumption, defense grade security features, and robust reliability across mission-critical environments. We market and sell our FPGA products and related solutions into a broad range of applications within the industrial, automotive, defense, aviation, space and communications markets. Built on unique architectures, utilizing volatile and non-volatile memories, our FPGA solutions enable power efficient compute, instant-on capability, enhanced resistance to configuration tampering, and deterministic performance under harsh operating conditions. The portfolio is complemented by AI enabled integrated development tools, intellectual property (IP) cores, and system-level solutions. Our offerings support a wide array of applications, including Edge AI systems, industrial automation, automotive systems, defense and aerospace platforms, aviation systems, space-grade deployments, and communications infrastructure, where power efficiency, longevity, functional safety, tamper proof cybersecurity and lifecycle stability are essential.
Our technology licensing business generates license fees and royalties associated with technology licenses for the use of our SuperFlash® embedded flash and other technologies. Our technology licensing business generates license fees and royalties associated with technology licenses for the use of our SuperFlash® embedded flash and other technologies. We also generate fees for engineering services related to these technologies. We license our Non-Volatile Memory technologies to foundries, integrated device manufacturers and design partners throughout the world for use in the manufacture of their advanced mixed-signal microcontroller products, gate array, RF, analog and neuromorphic compute products that require embedded non-volatile memory.
Our memory products consist of EEPROMs, Serial Flash memories, Parallel Flash memories, Serial SRAM memories and EERAMs. Serial EEPROMs, Serial Flash memories, Serial SRAMs and EERAMs have a very low I/O pin requirement, permitting production of very small footprint devices. We sell our memory products primarily into the embedded control market, complementing our mixed-signal microcontroller offerings. We sell our memory products primarily into the embedded controlmarket, complementing our mixed-signal microcontroller offerings.
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Development Tools
We offer a comprehensive set of low-cost and easy-to-learn application development tools. These tools enable system designers to quickly and easily develop firmware and program our mixed-signal microcontroller, FPGA and microprocessor products for specific applications and, we believe, they are an important factor for facilitating design wins. These tools enable system designers to quickly and easily program our mixed-signal microcontroller, FPGA and microprocessor products for specific applications and, we believe, they are an important factor for facilitating design wins.
Our family of development tools for our mixed-signal microcontroller, FPGA and microprocessor products range from entry-level systems, which include an assembler or a compiler and programmer or in-circuit debugging hardware, to fully configured systems that provide in-circuit emulation capability. We also offer a complete integrated development environment including a suite of compilers, software code configurators and simulators. Customers moving from entry-level designs to those requiring real-time emulation are able to preserve their investment in learning and tools as they migrate to future mixed-signal microcontroller devices in our portfolio.
Many independent companies also develop and market application development tools that support our mixed-signal microcontroller and microprocessor product architectures, including an extensive amount of third-party tool suppliers whose products support our mixed-signal microcontroller architectures.
We also offer an extensive range of development boards, evaluation kits and various specialty configuration and simulation tools for specific applications and specialty analog, communications, timing and other products to enable customers to evaluate and design with our products.
We believe that familiarity with and adoption of development tools from Microchip as well as from third-party development tool partners by an increasing number of product designers will be an important factor in the future selection of our embedded control products. These development tools allow design engineers to develop thousands of application-specific products from our standard mixed-signal microcontrollers.
Manufacturing
Our manufacturing operations include wafer fabrication, wafer probe, assembly, test and systems builds. The ownership of a substantial portion of our manufacturing resources is an important component of our business strategy, enabling us to maintain a high level of manufacturing control, resulting in us being one of the lowest cost producers in the embedded control industry. By owning wafer fabrication facilities and our assembly and test operations, and by employing statistical techniques (such as statistical process control, designed experiments and wafer level monitoring), we have been able to achieve and maintain high production yields. Direct control over manufacturing resources allows us to shorten our design and production cycles. This control also allows us to capture a portion of the wafer manufacturing, assembly and testing profit margin. We outsource a significant portion of our manufacturing requirements to third parties. We comply with several quality systems, including: ISO9001 (2015 version), IATF16949 (2016 version), AS9100 (2016 version), and TL9000.
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