Atmel Corp. (ATML)

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A lotto bet (guess) in Feb. 2013

was that Atmel's tech would be the battery extending feature in what was then rumored to be a watch from AAPL, too bad for Apple if such a thing can be said. ;)

New Atmel microcontrollers said to enable 10-year battery lives
Apr 1 2015, 17:55 ET | About: Atmel Corporation (ATML) | By: Eric Jhonsa, SA News Editor

Atmel's (NASDAQ:ATML) SAM L21 family of ARM-based (NASDAQ:ARMH) microcontrollers consume less than 35 microamps of power per MHz., far below the 120-160 microamps consumed by most low-power controllers. That, together with a sleep mode power draw of less than 200 nanoamps and various power-saving features, leads Atmel to claim the chips can enable embedded/wearable devices and sensors with battery lives of 10 years or more.The SAM L21, which comes with built-in flash and SRAM, delivered a score of 185 an industry power benchmark - Atmel states that's 50% above its closest competitor (an STMicroelectronics chip).The company argues its support for 5 different "power domains" (compared with just 2 for other chips) with varying levels of resource use improves power efficiency, and that devices containing SAM L21 chips might potentially be powered off energy captured from the human body.In addition to Atmel, Freescale and other ARM microcontroller vendors are working on ultra-low-power chips meant for embedded devices. Intel is going after the opportunity via its tiny Quark CPUs.

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