50
The future turns 50
Timeline
It started in 1965: a company dedicated to solving the toughest problems; to enabling the most amazing discoveries; to intelligently bridging the physical and digital worlds with technologies that sense, measure and connect.
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Analog Devices
Model 101 op amp
1960s
A decade of bold beginnings
Over 50 years ago, two MIT graduates, Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber, launched a new company, which they called Analog Devices. Their focus was the manufacture of high performance operational amplifiers – which as the name would suggest, precisely amplified and modified electrical signals – a newly developing market.
The new company immediately made money – sales reached $5.7 million within three years and Analog Devices went public soon thereafter. But the real story was just beginning . . .
Snapshot of 1965
$574,000
Revenue
$574,000
Revenue
3
Products
3
Products
46
Employees
46
Employees
1970s
Performance in more places
As Analog Devices entered our second decade, we began expanding our product line and presence across more and more industries, locations and innovations.
From technologies that helped explore deep space as part of several NASA programs, to powering virtual starships inside the most popular arcade cabinets of all time – and nearly everything in between – Analog Devices was there.
Snapshot of 1975
$30 million
Revenue
$30
million
Revenue35%
REVENUE FROM ICs
35%
REVENUE FROM ICs
834
Employees
834
Employees
1980s
Rise of the machines
By 1980, the opportunities for semiconductor technology were everywhere – and so, too, was Analog Devices. From the introduction of the desktop computer, to the birth of the CD player, to the growth of prosumer A/V technologies and hard drive storage, ADI sparked a wave of innovations.
This, too, was the decade in which ADI met with Presidents, pioneered STEM education awareness, expanded our best-in-class IC assembly capability to the Philippines, and entered multiple new markets (including consumer, communications and computing) even as we strengthened our leadership position in established ones (aerospace and defense, industrial instrumentation).
Snapshot of 1985
$322 million
Revenue
$322M
Revenue
20 Years
Our Anniversary
Milestone in 198520
Years
4,789
Employees
4,789
Employees
1990s
Let's
Get
Digital
The 1990s marked the emergence of the World Wide Web and ubiquity of digital technology across a wide range of innovations. Analog Devices’ ability to bridge the physical and digital worlds put us at the core of countless discoveries – from healthcare, to home theater, to image processing, to the underpinnings of the Internet, itself.
Snapshot of 1995
$942 million
Revenue
$942
million
RevenueSite Visitors
10,000Weekly
2015: 20,000 daily
10,000
site visits weekly
6,000
Employees
6,000
Employees
2000s
Innovations
with Impact
Safer. Faster. Greener. Healthier. More interconnected. More intelligent. More fun. These and other benefits derive from solutions that have Analog Devices technologies at the core. Entering our fourth decade, working with an ever-expanding roster of customers, Analog Devices could see more clearly than ever the impact of our innovative products and collaborative relationships.
Snapshot of 2005
$2.4 billion
Revenue
$2.4
billion
Revenue40.4%
share of data
converter market *40.4%
share of data
converter market *8,800
Employees
8,800
Employees
*40.4% ADI's share of the data converter market, according to Gartner Dataquest, twice that of the next closest competitor
2010s
Sensing a Revolution
Today’s world is more interconnected and sensor-laden than ever before. It offers engineers more opportunities and possibilities to create solutions that are truly transformative. And it represents the fulfillment of a technology vision that Analog Devices pioneered long ago: to intelligently bridge the digital and physical worlds with break-through technologies that sense, measure and connect.
Snapshot of 2015
100,000
Customers
100,000
Customers
2,200
patents
2,200
patents
9,700
Employees
9,700
Employees
50 years of innovation.
Always Ahead of What’s Possible.
For five decades, Analog Devices has always been Ahead of What’s Possible™ with game-changing technologies and ever-reliable, industry-leading products – many more converters, amplifiers and linear products than we included here, not to mention devices such as digiPOTs, clocks, and switches that help get the system done right. We’re proud to help enable some of the world’s most important and impactful technologies. We look forward to continuing our history of innovation, forwarding our partnership with innovators across the globe, and building the bridge between the digital and physical.