Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Technology
Type	Public company
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	US$1.17 billion (2010)[3]
Net income	US$361 million (2010)[1]
Total assets	US$1.59 billion (2010)[1]
Employees	4,191 (June 2010)[1]
Website	www.linear.com

Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: LLTC, NASDAQ-100) 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[link]

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.

Locations[link]

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[link]

External links[link]

Companies portal

• Linear Technology official website, including LTspice

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