Microchip Technology Announces Outstanding Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2017

Microchip will host a conference call today, February 7, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss this release.  This call will be simulcast over the Internet at www.microchip.com. The webcast will be available for replay until February 21, 2017.

A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available at approximately 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on February 7, 2017 and will remain available until 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on February 21, 2017.  Interested parties may listen to the replay by dialing 719-457-0820 and entering access code 3591995.

Cautionary Statement:

The statements in this release relating to improving sales, gross margin percentage, operating expense leverage and accretion from our acquisitions, our belief that the impact from customer requests added approximately one percent to our December quarter revenue, that investors should view the true end market demand for our products in the fiscal third quarter to be about one percent lower than our reported GAAP and non-GAAP net sales and our fiscal fourth quarter 2017 true end market demand to be about two percent higher than the midpoint of our GAAP and non-GAAP net sales guidance, continuing to gain market share, having the new product momentum and customer engagement to continue to gain even more microcontroller market share, building the best performing microcontroller franchise in the industry, continuing to develop and introduce a wide range of innovative and proprietary new products to fuel the future growth of our analog business, expecting net sales in the March quarter to be between $872 million and $908 million, our long-term non-GAAP operating model being 60% gross margin, 24% operating expenses and 36% operating profit, that our MOST technology is still a leading standard for automotive infotainment, our fourth quarter fiscal 2017 GAAP and non-GAAP guidance including net sales, gross margin, operating expenses, operating income, other expense, income tax (benefit)/expense, net income, diluted common shares outstanding, earnings per diluted share, inventory days, capital expenditures for the March 2017 quarter and for all of fiscal 2017, continuing to invest to support the growth of our production capabilities for fast growing new products and technologies, that non-GAAP results provide investors with useful information regarding the actual end market demand for our products, and assumed average stock price in the March 2017 quarter are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to: any economic uncertainty due to monetary policy, political or other issues in the U.S. or internationally, any unexpected fluctuations or weakness in the U.S. and global economies (including China), changes in demand or market acceptance of our products and the products of our customers; foreign currency effects on our business; the mix of inventory we hold and our ability to satisfy short-term orders from our inventory; changes in utilization of our manufacturing capacity and our ability to effectively manage our production levels; competitive developments including pricing pressures; the level of orders that are received and can be shipped in a quarter; the level of sell-through of our products through distribution; changes or fluctuations in customer order patterns and seasonality; our ability to successfully integrate the operations and employees, retain key employees and customers and otherwise realize the expected synergies and benefits of our Atmel acquisition; our ability to continue to realize the expected benefits of our other acquisitions; the impact of any other significant acquisitions that we may make; our ability to obtain a sufficient supply of wafers from third party wafer foundries and the cost of such wafers, the costs and outcome of any current or future tax audit or any litigation or other matters involving intellectual property, customers, or other issues; our actual average stock price in the March 2017 quarter and the impact such price will have on our share count; fluctuations in our stock price and trading volume which could impact the number of shares we acquire under our share repurchase program and the timing of such repurchases; disruptions in our business or the businesses of our customers or suppliers due to natural disasters (including any floods in Thailand), terrorist activity, armed conflict, war, worldwide oil prices and supply, public health concerns or disruptions in the transportation system; and general economic, industry or political conditions in the United States or internationally.

For a detailed discussion of these and other risk factors, please refer to Microchip's filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.  You can obtain copies of Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other relevant documents for free at Microchip's website ( www.microchip.com) or the SEC's website ( www.sec.gov) or from commercial document retrieval services.

Stockholders of Microchip are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made.  Microchip does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or new information after this February 7, 2017 press release, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

About Microchip:

Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide.  Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.  For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com.

Note:  The Microchip name and logo, MOST, MPLAB, SuperFlash, tinyAVR and PIC are registered trademarks of Microchip Technology Inc. in the USA and other countries.  All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies.

INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT:
J. Eric Bjornholt -- CFO
(480) 792-7804

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