Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analogue, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs). The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts. Analog Devices serves a broad range of markets, including industrial, automotive, medical, and aerospace. Its products are used in a variety of applications, including data conversion, signal conditioning, and power management. The company also provides a wide range of services, such as design, engineering, and technical support.

Analog Devices is one of the world's leading suppliers of analogue and mixed-signal ICs, offering a comprehensive portfolio of products and services. The company's products include amplifiers, data converters, embedded processors, microcontrollers, signal conditioning, and signal processing devices. Its products are used in a wide range of applications such as automotive, audio, communications, computing, consumer electronics, industrial, medical, and military/aerospace.

Analog Devices is committed to providing innovative solutions that enable customers to reduce their design cycles, improve system performance, and reduce their overall costs. The company's products are designed to meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. The company also provides a wide range of technical support and design services to help customers optimize their designs.

Analog Devices has a strong commitment to research and development and has invested heavily in the development of new technologies to ensure that it remains at the forefront of the industry. The company has also established close partnerships with leading technology companies, such as Intel, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments, to create innovative solutions for its customers.

1965: It started this year, a company dedicated to solving the toughest problems; enabling the most amazing discoveries; to intelligently bridging the physical and digital worlds with technologies that sense, measure and connect. Analog Devices was founded by Raymond P. Stata and Matthew Lorber in 1965 and is headquartered in Norwood, MA.“

1967: The company published the first issue of its technical magazine, Analog Dialogue.

1968: Sales had reached $5.7 million, and, one year later, Analog Devices went public.

1969: The company first floated its shares in the stock market and made its emergence in the business world felt. Analog Devices also began funding a manufacturer of semiconductors. Analog Devices bought Pastoriza Research, a firm that had developed highly specialized integrated circuits that converted analogue signals to digital ones.

1973: The company began backing Micro-Sensors, Inc., a small company that made sensors for measuring textile yarns during production. The company was the first to launch laser trim wafers and the first CMOS digital-to-analogue converter.

1977: Financing new start-up ventures and building new facilities proved a strain on the company's resources, and, Analog sought investment capital.

1980: The opportunities for semiconductor technology were everywhere – and so, too, were Analog Devices. Then, Standard Oil and Analog entered into a second agreement, establishing a joint venture called Analog Devices Enterprises.

1982: Analog Devices, Inc. had sales of $156 million, shipping over 200 products to over 15,000 customers in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Stata had taken his company through a series of five-year plans, carefully projecting growth and moving into strategic areas of new technology, and, he predicted that Analog Devices would be a billion-dollar company within eight years.

1985: The joint venture company Analog Devices Enterprises was terminated in September, and, the following year, Standard Oil of Indiana (which had become Amoco Corp.) sold its stock in Analog in order to concentrate on its core oil business.

1990: The share price stood where it had ten years earlier, and the company posted its first loss. The company had not reached its $1 billion goal--sales were about $485 million--and it was too large to compete with the smaller high-tech firms that were overtaking niche markets.

1992: Analog also entered an alliance with Hewlett-Packard to develop mixed-signal semiconductors, which could combine analogue and digital processing on a single chip.

1993: Analog introduced a low-cost, accurate, and stable temperature controller that could be used in residential thermostats.

1996: The company reported over $1 billion in company revenue.

2000: Analog Devices' sales grew by over 75% to $2.578 Billion and the company acquired five companies including BCO Technologies PLC, a manufacturer of thick film semiconductors, for $150 million.

2008: In January, ON Semiconductor completed the acquisition of the CPU Voltage and PC Thermal Monitoring Business from Analog Devices., for $184 million.

2012: The company led the worldwide data converter market with a 48.5% share, according to analyst firm Databeans.

2013: That same year, Jerald Fishman was named president and CEO, a position he held until his death.

2016: In July, Analog and Linear Technology agreed that Analog would acquire Linear in an approximately $14.8 billion cash and stock deal.

2020: In July, Analog agreed to acquire Maxim Integrated in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $68 billion.

“We connect the physical and digital worlds to transform signals into actions and improve lives in profound ways.”

“Analog Devices is dedicated to enriching people's lives through signal processing technologies. We transform people's experience with technology by bridging the analogue and digital worlds.”