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Company Profile - Analog Devices, Inc.

One Technology Way
P.O. Box 9106
Norwood, MA 02062-9106

Phone: 781-329-4700
Phone2: 800-262-5643
Fax: 781-461-3638
Website: www.analog.com
Ticker Symbol: ADI

Key Facts

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.
Key Financial Facts
2002 revenue: $1,708 million 1-yr growth rate: -25 percent

Personnel Highlights
Number of employees: 8,600 1-yr growth rate: -4 percent

Company Overview
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 of mostly data converters and amplifiers, is 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 used in 35 percent of all airbag systems worldwide. In 2002, ADI introduced the world’s first integrated silicon MEMS gyroscope, a rate sensor that is one one-hundredth the size of existing sensors that can be used in automotive applications, industrial controls, robotics, flight control, and navigation systems.

Major Line of Business : Semiconductors

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