AD Company (Analog Devices, Analog Devices) is an American multinational semiconductor device manufacturer. American Analog Devices specializes in manufacturing ADC, DAC, MEMS and DSP chips for consumer and industrial products. They are currently designing circuits in sizes ranging from 65 nanometers to 3 microns.

Analog Devices currently employs 8,800 people worldwide. Revenue in fiscal year 2005 was US$2.4 billion, with cumulative sales of US$26 billion.

American Analog Devices ADI is one of the oldest semiconductor companies in the world. The company was founded in 1965 by Ray Stata and Matthew Lorber. Stata still serves as the company's chairman to this day. Jerald G. Fishman is currently the CEO and President, and Stata is the Chairman.

In today's ever-changing IT industry, ADI has always attached great importance to the balanced development of R&D and manufacturing. With more than 180 engineers and 17 years of R&D and manufacturing experience, ADI has always been able to occupy a place in the highly competitive technology industry and combine it with manufacturing to reduce costs and create market success. Since 1991, Microscan series of multi-size color monitors have been launched successively, ranging from 14" to 21" to meet the needs of various computers. In addition to displays, ADI also regards multimedia, telecommunications, digital broadcasting, and LCD displays as another important extension of the industry to provide users with more diversified products and create new market opportunities.

ADI is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with production plants in the United States and Limerick, Ireland, and huge packaging equipment in the Philippines. Development centers are located in Israel, Beijing and Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Japan, Taipei, Taiwan, Edinburgh, Scotland, Melbourne, Australia, Hyderabad and Bangalore, India, Munich, Germany, Valencia, Spain and other places

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Market trends and ADI’s core competencies are converging

As the digital revolution deepens and requirements shift to higher speeds and multimedia, as well as changes in communication, entertainment, work and travel, users' demand for the technology created by ADI is increasing day by day. ADI is making unremitting efforts to promote the improvement of the characteristics of each type of electronic products. In today's automobiles, digital cameras, LCD and plasma televisions, cellular phones, medical imaging equipment and factory automation equipment, ADI's chips enable smoother connections, more vivid images, clearer speech and more portable products. ADI's core analog and digital signal processing technology has penetrated into every corner.

ADI products

ADI, an American analog device company, produces a variety of semiconductor devices, which are divided into the following categories:

Audio amplifiers, comparators, analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, embedded processing, digital signal processing, MEMS, sensors, radio waves, power management, audio/video, etc.

In terms of software, ADI has the SoundMAX audio driver, which is used to match the company's AD series audio chips. SoundMAX is a technical specification that includes a series of technologies that can reduce CPU usage and increase the realism of sound effects. Some users even modify the SoundMAX driver to apply it to non-ADI products.

ADI's Analog Semiconductor Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai is the Asia-Pacific headquarters of ADI. It is also a company registered by ADI in China and has established design centers in Beijing and Shanghai. ADI is committed to helping Chinese manufacturers solve their most difficult design problems.

ADI latest news

During E3 2006, ADI revealed to the press that it was cooperating with Nintendo to develop a controller for Nintendo's new game console Wii, which incorporated Analog Devices' ADXL330 3-axis linear accelerometer.

Analog Devices recently partnered with Source Audio LLC to manufacture the DSP and motion sensors for the HotHand, a motion-controlled guitar effects device.

AD announced its withdrawal from the sound card market in July 2008. AD's statement pointed out that as the PC sound effects market becomes increasingly narrow and profits shrink, the company will focus on other markets. In addition, drivers for previous products will be continuously updated.