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A customer for many years, Samsung uses a broad range of Microchip's embedded-control solutions across many of its diverse product lines, including 8, 16 and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, analog and interface ICs, serial EEPROM memory devices, RF power amplifiers, and flash memory devices.
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