>> If there's a PIC in it, that would be Malaysia or Thailand I believe.
>
> I thought Microchip's wafer fab plants were company-owned. The last
> time I checked, they had two - one in Chandler, Arizona, the other in
> Tempe, Arizona.

Those are silicon fab plants.  The packaging and final shipping I think
gets done in Thailand.

> Excuse me if I spelled the names wrong - my knowledge
> of US states and cities is sub-par at best (that's what I get for being
> British, I suppose).

You've got it the easy way around.  It can be rather confusing for us
simpleton americans when watching BBC programs where the place names sound
like meaninful words.  I guess you have to know the magic list of
keywords, because it's hard to spot them from syntax sometimes.  Maybe I'm
just slow, but it took me a while to get used to Midsummer Worthy being a
place name.  Then there are names like Muddy Field Over Hill Behind
Woodshed Upon Thames, and houses apparently have names too (and are valid
mail addresses ?) but often not something obvious like <blah blah> House.


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