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Microchip Technology Earns Best Supplier Award from NPE Magazine

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|CHANDLER, Ariz. – Nov. 20, 2002 – Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced the Company has earned the 2002 Best Supplier Award from Noticiário de Produtos |

|Eletrônicos-Brazil (NPE) magazine for its success in delivering top-quality PICmicro® microcontrollers. The 2002 NPE award recognizes organizations around the world that |

|excel in supplying premium products and consistently delivering on time. |

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|Microchip is a leading embedded control solution provider and offers world-class components and development tools to support virtually every electronic design, from high |

|performance feature packed PICmicro® microcontrollers to the advanced, high-endurance serial EEPROMs and analog devices. |

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|Microchip manufactures the widely popular PICmicro® RISC microcontrollers, including the industry’s most flexible microcontroller solutions, which serve 8- and 16-bit |

|embedded control application markets. Specializing in field-programmable and mixed-signal solutions, Microchip’s devices target thousands of embedded control applications|

|in the automotive, consumer, communications, computer and industrial control markets. Microcontrollers are the low-cost devices that provide electronics intelligence to |

|thousands of applications, such as dishwashers, garage door openers and remote controls. |

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|“Microchip is committed to becoming the worldwide supplier of choice in the embedded control market,” said Steve Sanghi, President and CEO at Microchip. “We have earned |

|the NPE Best Supplier Award by consistently delivering the industry’s most flexible microcontroller solutions, validating Microchip’s ability to provide design solutions |

|for a wide range of applications and exhibiting excellence through our quality and customer service efforts. |

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|To complement the microcontroller product families, Microchip offers best-in-class development tools, software and industry-leading worldwide sales support that enables |

|designers ease of integration when manufacturing next-generation electronics. |

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|Established in 1977, NPE is the first new product publication targeted directly at Brazil's rapidly emerging electronics industry. NPE-Brazil is circulated across |

|Brazil's vast manufacturing sectors including computers, communications, automotive, industrial controls, aviation and consumer products. |

|About Microchip Technology |

|Microchip Technology Inc. manufactures the popular PICmicro® field-programmable RISC microcontrollers, which serve 8- and 16-bit embedded control applications, and a |

|broad spectrum of high performance linear and mixed-signal, power management and thermal management devices. The company also offers complementary microperipheral |

|products including interface devices; microID® RFID devices; serial EEPROMs; and the patented KEELOQ® security devices. This synergistic product portfolio targets |

|thousands of applications and a growing demand for high-performance designs in the automotive, communications, computing, consumer and industrial control markets. The |

|company's quality systems are ISO 9001 (1994 version) and QS9000 (1998 version) certified. Microchip is headquartered in Chandler with design facilities in Mountain View,|

|Calif., Bangalore, India; and a European Design Center in Lausanne, Switzerland; semiconductor fabrication facilities in Tempe and Chandler, Ariz.; Gresham, Ore.; and |

|Puyallup, Wash.; and assembly and test operations near Bangkok, Thailand. Microchip employs approximately 3,300 people worldwide and has sales offices throughout Asia, |

|Europe, Japan and the Americas. More information on the Company can be found at . |

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|Note: The Microchip name and logo, microID, PIC, PICmicro and KEELOQ are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other |

|trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |

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