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Analog Devices

Type	Public (NYSE: ADI)
Founded	Cambridge, Massachusetts (1965)
Headquarters	Norwood, Massachusetts
Key people	Jerald G Fishman, CEO & President, Ray Stata, Chairman of the Board
Industry	Semiconductors
Products	Semiconductors
Revenue	$2.6 billion USD (2008)
Employees	8,500 (2009)
Website	www.analog.com

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology. Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers representing a wide variety of electronic equipment types, including industrial and medical equipment, wireless communications infrastructure, automotive applications, and consumer electronics. Analog Devices is a global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

Analog Devices employs 8,500 people worldwide. Revenues in fiscal year 2008 totalled $2.6 billion. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ADI” and is included in the S&P 500 Index.

Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The company was founded by Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber in 1965. Stata maintains an active role in the company to this day. On March 11, 1969, an initial public offering was held, and Analog Devices became a publicly traded company. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1979. In August 1990 Analog Devices bought Precision Monolithics Inc.^[1]

Currently, Jerald G. Fishman is the CEO and President, and Stata is the Chairman of the Board.

The company headquarters is in Norwood, Massachusetts. There are large fabrication plants in the US and the main European facility is located at Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. They also have large testing facilities in the Philippines.

Other international ADI development centers are located in Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Munich, Germany; Valencia, Spain; Israel; Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Bangalore, India; and other locations across the globe.

[edit] Products

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Analog Devices produces a wide array of semiconductor devices, in the following categories:

• Amplifiers
• Comparators
• Voltage references
• Analog to digital converters
• Digital to analog converters
• Embedded Processing
  • SHARC
  • TigerSHARC
  • Blackfin
• Digital Signal Processing
• MEMS
• Sensors
• RF
• Power management
• Audio/Video
  • SoundPort and SoundMAX PC sound solutions, AC'97 codecs
• Fiber optic

[edit] See also

• Analog Dialogue

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Corporate Website
• ADI Stock Price

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