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Agilent Technologies

Type	Public (NYSE: A)
Founded	1999 (from HP)
Headquarters	Santa Clara, CA and Oswego, Illinois[1], USA
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	William P. Sullivan (President), (CEO) & (Director)
Industry	Electronic equipment Biotechnology
Products	Biological and chemical analysis equipment Electronic analysis equipment
Revenue	▲ $ 5.774 billion (2008)
Operating income	▲ $ 795.00 million (2008)
Net income	▲ $ 693.00 million (2008)
Total assets	▼ $ 7.437 billion (2008)
Total equity	▼ $ 2.559 billion (2008)
Employees	~18,750 - June 2009
Website	Agilent.com
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Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), or Agilent, is a company which designs and manufactures instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. The company's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.

Many of Agilent's predecessor product lines were developed by the American computing company Hewlett-Packard, which was founded in 1939. In 1999, the product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to the public in an initial public offering. The Agilent IPO may have been the largest in the history of Silicon Valley.^[4]

The company thus created in 1999 was an $8 billion company with about 47,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and electronic test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.

Contents 1 Product lines 2 Research and development 2.1 Origin 2.2 Locations 3 Investment arm 4 Corporate restructuring 5 See also 6 References 7 External links 8 Sources

[edit] Product lines

Agilent's major product lines include:

• Test & Measurement products such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, Atomic Force Microscope (AFM),automated optical inspection, automated x-ray inspection (5DX), in-circuit test, CDMA mobile test set, and electronic design automation (EDA) software (EEsof)
• Life Science and Chemical Analysis products such as DNA microarrays, HPLCs, capillary electrophoresis systems, mass spectrometers, and gas chromatographs
• Communications equipment such as LAN/WAN network analyzers Wireline Active Test [N2X][3] or HBAs
• Automotive Network Test Tools for CAN, LIN and FlexRay Networks.
• Agilent CertiPrime is Agilent's used electronic test equipment brand. It offers fully remanufactured test equipment with discounts ranging from 20% to 50%.

• In addition to measuring hardware, Agilent has generated and offers comprehensive chemical databases. In January 2009 it announced the availability of a pesticide database covering 1600 compounds, with accurate mass information for each. It also announced the proximite release of similar databases for toxicology and drugs of abuse such as proximite, cannabis, and caffeine.^[5]

[edit] Research and development

Agilent Technologies has a robust research and development arm, Agilent Laboratories or Agilent Labs, with active research in numerous areas including MEMS, nanotechnology, and Life Sciences. A key factor in this division is aligning future research with the needs and strategic priorities of the businesses each lab will support.

Agilent labs is primarily a research entity, the research is divided into three primary segments:

• Research that will lead to breakthrough and disruptive technologies and applications to grow Agilent’s existing businesses in electronic and bio-analytical measurement systems.
• Research that leads to technologies that create new businesses adjacent to Agilent’s current markets but within Agilent’s field of interest.
• Basic research that contributes to the fundamental understanding of areas critical to Agilent’s future.^[6]

[edit] Origin

HP labs was divided into two central labs when Agilent was carved out of HP in 1999.^[7]

Both laboratories have had distinct success throughout the years including development in x-ray technology, traffic monitoring, and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.^[8]

[edit] Locations

The majority of the Labs research is located in the United States in Santa Clara, Calif., with additional locations in Europe (Leuven, Belgium, and South Queensferry, Scotland) and in Asia (Beijing, China).

[edit] Investment arm

Agilent Technologies has an active investment group, Agilent Ventures, which invests in high-tech start up companies. Investments include MEMX, Infinera, and Telasics.

[edit] Corporate restructuring

In 2001, Agilent Technologies sold its healthcare and medical products organization to Philips Medical Systems. HP Medical Products had been the second oldest part of Hewlett-Packard, acquired in the 1950s. Only the original founding test and measurement organization was older.

In August 2005, Agilent Technologies announced the sale of its Semiconductor Products Group, which produced light-emitting diode, radio frequency and mixed-signal integrated circuits, to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and Silver Lake Partners. The group now operates as Avago Technologies, an independent, privately held company. Agilent also sold its 47% stake in the light-emitting diode manufacturer Lumileds to Philips Electronics for just under $1 billion. Lumileds originally started as Hewlett-Packard's optoelectronics division.

Also in August 2005, Agilent announced a plan to divest its semiconductor test solutions business, composed of both the system-on-chip and memory test market areas. Agilent listed the new company as Verigy, mid-2006 on NASDAQ.

In 2009 Agilent announced the closure of a subsection of its Test & Measurement division. The product lines affected include the automated optical inspection, solder paste inspection, and automated x-ray products [5DX]. In 2004 Agilent reported that it had captured 19% of the 244million (excluding Japan) global imaging inspection market.^[9] On 27th of July 2009 Agilent announced they would buy Varian Inc, for $1.5 Billion.

[edit] See also

• Laboratory equipment

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Agilent Technologies

• Agilent Technologies
• Agilent CertiPrime
• Agilent Trade-in
• Agilent N2X
• Patents assigned to Agilent Technologies via US Patent and Trademark Office (2881 patents as of Feb 14, 2007)
• Agilent Discussion Forum Agilent Discussion Forum
• Agilent Press Releases
• Yahoo! - Agilent Technologies, Inc. Company Profile
• Agilent and HP History Links

[edit] Sources

• Agilent company information