Interactive Image Technologies
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National Instruments campus in Austin, Texas
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NASDAQ: NATI S&P 400 Component |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Founder |
James Truchard Bill Nowlin Jeff Kodosky |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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Key people
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James Truchard Chairman Alex Davern CEO |
| Products |
LabWindows/CVI LabVIEW PXI DAQ cRIO TestStand roboRIO |
| Revenue |  US$ 1.24 billion (2014) |
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US$ 145.187 million (2014)
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US$ 126.333 million (2014)
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| Total assets |
US$ 1.455 billion (2014)
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| Total equity |
US$ 1.117 billion (2014)
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Number of employees
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7,084 (December 2014) |
| Website | www |
National Instruments Corporation, or NI, is an American multinational company with international operation. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. Common applications include data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision.
In 2012, the company sold products to more than 35,000 companies with revenues of $1.12 billion USD.
In the early 1970s, James Truchard, Jeff Kodosky, and Bill Nowlin, were working at the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories. As part of a project conducting research for the U.S. Navy, the men were using early computer technology to collect and analyze data. Frustrated with the inefficient data collection methods they were using, the three decided to create a product that would enable their task to be done more easily. In 1976, working in the garage at Truchard's home, the three founded a new company. They attempted to incorporate under several names, including Longhorn Instruments and Texas Digital, but all were rejected. Finally, they settled on the current name of National Instruments.
With a $10,000 loan from Interfirst Bank, the group bought a PDP-11/04 minicomputer and, for their first project, designed and built a GPIB interface for it. Their first sale was the result of a cold call to Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Because the trio were still employed by the University of Texas, in 1977 they hired their first full-time employee, Kim Harrison-Hosen, who handled orders, billing, and customer inquiries. By the end of the year they had sold three boards, and, to attract more business, the company produced and sent a mailer to 15,000 users of the PDP-11 minicomputer. As sales increased, they were able to move into a real office space in 1978, occupying a 600-square-foot (56 m2) office at 9513 Burnet Road in Austin, Texas.
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