Highlights
ADI's products convert stimuli such as temperature, motion, pressure, light, and sound into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of applications such as factory automation, radar systems, CAT scanners, cellular base stations, broadband modems, wireless telephones, computers, cars, and digital cameras.
High R&D spending: employs approximately 3,100 engineers.
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) makes linear, mixed-signal, and digital integrated circuits specifically for analog and digital processing devices. Its standard linear integrated circuits (SLICs), consisting mostly of data converters and amplifiers, comprise the largest product group in the company. ADI maintains manufacturing and testing facilities in Massachusetts, California, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. Founded in 1965, the company now has a portfolio of more than 10,000 products used by more than 60,000 customers worldwide. ADI caters to the personal computing, digital entertainment, industrial, and medical and scientific markets. Clients include Ericsson, Dell, Lucent, and Sony. ADI has been expanding into the microelectrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology market. It pioneered the MEMS market in the 1990s by producing the world’s first micro-machined accelerometer, which is now frequently used in airbag systems. ADI’s accelerometers are also used in Nintendo’s Wii video game system to give its controllers their characteristic motion sensitivity. In 2006, ADI sold off its network processor division for $30 million.