If the proposed acquisition by Atmel Corp of Honeywell Inc’s Solid State Electronics division in Colorado Springs, Colorado goes through (CI No 1,190) the five-year old privately-held San Jose company will become a substantial player, getting 1,000 employees three fabrication areas, one of them a 6 facility that is described as an ultra-modern, Class 10 area capable of production volumes of sub-micron CMOS integrated circuits, certified to meet Military Standard 38510, and related assembly, testing and engineering facilities; Atmel is currently a producer of non-volatile programmable memory and logic semiconductors for military and commercial markets; Honeywell says it is retaining its semiconductor operations in Plymouth, Minnesota.
