Big merger: Analog Devices buys Linear Tech. for $14.8b
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Linear Technology Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets a line of analog integrated circuits worldwide. The company offers amplifiers, high speed amplifiers, voltage regulators and references, interface circuits, data converters, battery stack monitors, silicon oscillators and Timer Blox, and phase locked loop synthesizers and clock distribution products. It also provides SmartMesh embedded wireless sensor network products; isolated µModule transceivers; radio frequency circuits; power over Ethernet controllers; µModule power products; signal chain µModule products; and other linear circuits, including buffers, power monitors, motor controllers, coulomb counters, diodes/bridges, hot swap circuits, comparators, sample-and-hold devices, timers, drivers, and filters. The company?s linear circuits are used in various applications, such as factory automation, process control, industrial and laboratory instrumentation, security monitoring and complex medical devices, telecommunications, and networking products; automotive electronics, tablet, notebook, and desktop computers; computer peripherals, video/multimedia, military, space, and other harsh environment systems; and consumer products. It markets its products primarily through direct sales staff and electronics distributors. Linear Technology Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
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Analog Devices, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of solutions that leverage analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing technology, including integrated circuits (ICs), algorithms, software, and subsystems. It offers data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; high-performance amplifiers to condition analog signals; and radio frequency ICs to support cellular infrastructure. The company also offers micro-electro mechanical systems technology solutions, including accelerometers to sense acceleration, gyroscopes to sense rotation, and inertial measurement units to sense multiple degrees of freedom. In addition, it offers isolators for various applications, such as universal serial bus isolation in patient monitors; and smart metering and satellite applications. Further, the company provides power management and reference products that include functions, such as power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing, and energy management; and digital signal processing products for high-speed numeric calculations. Its products are used in electronic equipment, including industrial process control systems, medical imaging equipment, factory automation systems, patient monitoring devices, instrumentation and measurement systems, wireless infrastructure equipment, energy management systems, networking equipment, aerospace and defense electronics, optical systems, automobiles, and portable electronic devices. The company serves clients in industrial, automotive, consumer, and communications markets through a direct sales force, third-party distributors, and independent sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and internationally, as well as through its Website. Analog Devices, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts.
