Linear Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: LLTC) today announced the opening of its newest design center in Phoenix, Arizona. This marks the company’s tenth design center, as it continues to expand its resources for design of high-performance analog integrated circuits. Linear Technology has successfully developed satellite design centers over the past several years in order to rapidly grow the company’s analog design staff.
ave Bell, President of Linear Technology, stated, “The Phoenix Design Center represents a significant addition to our growing team of analog design talent at Linear Technology. The Phoenix-Chandler-Tempe area ranks among the top communities for analog design talent, and we’re excited to draw on this extensive resource. We expect the Phoenix Design Center to contribute innovative product designs across all of Linear’s product lines, which will further fuel the company’s growth.”
In addition to the new Phoenix Design Center, Linear Technology has design centers in Bedford, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Burlington, Vermont; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Grass Valley, California; Raleigh, North Carolina; Santa Barbara, California; Singapore; and at the company headquarters in Milpitas, California.
Linear Technology continues to seek talented analog IC designers as the company grows, and has proven that satellite design centers facilitate expansion of engineering resources beyond the deep talent pool at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Linear Technology produces a wide range of high-performance analog integrated circuits supporting its power management, mixed signal, signal conditioning, and high frequency product lines.
Company Background
Linear Technology Corporation was founded in 1981 as a manufacturer of high performance linear integrated circuits. Linear Technology products include high performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC-DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, RF signal conditioning circuits, and many other analog functions. Applications for Linear Technology’s high performance circuits include telecommunications, cellular telephones, networking products such as optical switches, notebook and desktop computers, computer peripherals, video/multimedia, industrial instrumentation, security monitoring devices, high-end consumer products such as digital cameras and MP3 players, complex medical devices, automotive electronics, factory automation, process control, and military and space systems.
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