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Not long ago, Atmel's stock whipsawed between dramatic highs and lows. A CEO-CFO collaboration smoothed some of the spikes. After the integrated circuit manufacturer went public early in 1991 at $6.50 per share, its stock price jumped nearly 50 percent. But a heavy reliance on military contracts and the end of the Gulf War caused the stock price to plummet. Together, CEO George Perlegos and CFO Kris Chellam developed a strategy that diversified revenues geographically as well as by product line....