Linear Technology

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Linear Technology Corporation
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: LLTC
NASDAQ-100 Component
Founded 1981[1]
Founder(s) Robert H. Swanson, Jr.
Robert C. Dobkin
Headquarters Milpitas, California, USA
Number of locations 12 (10 U.S. design centers, Munich and Singapore)
Key people Lothar Maier (CEO), Robert H. Swanson, Jr. (Chairman), Robert C. Dobkin (CTO)[1]
Products Over 7500 products[2]
Revenue IncreaseUS$1.17 billion (2010)[3]
Net income IncreaseUS$361 million (2010)[1]
Total assets IncreaseUS$1.59 billion (2010)[1]
Employees 4,191 (June 2010)[1]
Website www.linear.com

Linear Technology Corporation designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of standard high performance analog integrated circuits. Applications for the company's products include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products, notebook and desktop computers, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.

The company was founded in 1981 by Robert H. Swanson, Jr. and Robert C. Dobkin.[1] In August 2010, Forbes called the company "one of the tech industry's most profitable companies."[2]

Products

As of August 2010, the company makes over 7500 products,[2] which they organize into seven product categories: data conversion (analog to digital converters, digital to analog converters), signal conditioning (operational amplifiers, comparators, voltage references), power management (switching regulators, linear regulators, battery management, led drivers), interface (RS232, RS485), radio frequency (mixers, quadrature modulators), oscillators, and space and military ics.[1]

The company maintains LTspice a freely downloadable version of SPICE that includes schematic capture. It is used extensively by IC designers and application engineers.

Locations

Corporate headquarters are in Milpitas, California.[3] In the United States, the company has design centers in Tempe, Arizona; Grass Valley, California; Santa Barbara, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; North Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Cary, North Carolina; Plano, Texas; Burlington, Vermont; and Camas, Washington. It also has centers in Munich and Singapore.[4]

The company's wafer fabrication facilities are located in Camas and Milpitas.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Linear Technology Corporation /CA/ - Form 10-K". Internet FAQ Consortium. August 19, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Brian Caulfield (August 20, 2010). "Long Live Analog". Forbes. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Linear Technology Corporation". Hoover's. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 
  4. "Home > Company > Careers > Design Centers". Linear Technology. Retrieved 2010-08-25. 

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