The Company Profile: Analog Devices Inc.

摘要

Electronics pioneers and MIT graduatesRay Stata and Matthew Lorber launchedAnalog Devices in 1965, in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Their focus was on manufacturinghigh-performance operationalamplifiers for a developing test and measurementmarket. According to ADI, thecompany made money from the get-go:sales reached $5.7 million within threeyears and Analog Devices went publicsoon thereafter, in 1969. Much of the company’s business was with militaryand industrial customers and involvedcustom designs for specific applications.In 1977 the company opened upits first semiconductor manufacturingplant outside the U.S., in Ireland.