Linear Technology

Linear Technology Corporation

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1981
Founder	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)
Products	Over 7500 products
Revenue	US$1,475 million (2015) US$1,388 million (2014)
Operating income	US$682 million (2015) US$639 million (2014)
Net income	US$520 million (2015) US$459 million (2014)
Total assets	US$1,884 million (2015) US$1,655 million (2014)
Total equity	US$1,577 million (2015) US$1,331 million (2014)
Number of employees	4,865 (June 2015)
Parent	Analog Devices
Website	http://www.linear.com

Linear Technology Corporation 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, military and space systems.

The company was founded in 1981 by Robert H. Swanson, Jr. and Robert C. Dobkin. In August 2010, Forbes called the company "one of the tech industry's most profitable companies".

In July 2016 Analog Devices agreed to buy Linear Technology for 14.8 billion dollars. This acquisition was finalized on March 10, 2017.

As of August 2010, the company makes over 7500 products, 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.

The company maintains LTspice, a freely downloadable version of SPICE that includes schematic capture.

Corporate headquarters are in Milpitas, California. In the United States, the company has design centers in Phoenix, Arizona; Grass Valley, California; Santa Barbara, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; North Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Cary, North Carolina; Plano, Texas; and Burlington, Vermont. It also has centers in Munich and Singapore.