Keysight

Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Public
Traded as
Industry
  • Electronics
Founded 2014 (from Agilent and HP)
Founder Bill Hewlett, David Packard (from HP)
Headquarters Santa Rosa, California,
United States[1]
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Ronald S. Nersesian
(CEO) & (President)[2]
Products
  • Electronic measurement equipment
Revenue US$ 2.9 billion (2014)[2]
Number of employees
 9,700 (2014)[2]
Divisions
  • EEsof EDA
  • oscilloscopes
  • vector network analyzers
  • modular instruments
  • field instruments
  • bench instruments
Website Keysight.com

Keysight Technologies, or Keysight, is a US company that manufactures test and measurement equipment and software. In 2014, Keysight was spun off from Agilent Technologies, bringing with it the product lines focused on electronics and radio, leaving Agilent with the chemical and bio-analytical products.

The name is a portmanteau of key and insight, and was chosen to convey that the company "unlocks" "critical or key insights."[2][3]

Products

Keysight's products include hardware and software for benchtop, modular, and field instruments.[4] Instruments include oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, atomic force microscopes (AFM), automated optical inspection, automated X-ray inspection (5DX), in-circuit testers, power supplies and handheld tools. In addition, it produces electronic design automation (EDA) software (EEsof division). It mainly serves the telecommunications, aerospace/defense, industrial, computer, and semiconductor industries.[5]

History

Prior to its existence as an independent company, the group that became Keysight was Hewlett-Packard (HP)'s and then Agilent's electronic test and measurement division. HP began as a company making electronic test equipment, with the computer and life sciences products coming later. In 1999, HP spun-off all test and measurement products into Agilent and retained the computer and printer businesses.[6] On 1 November 2014 the formal separation of Agilent and Keysight Technologies was completed, with Agilent retaining the life science businesses. The separation was implemented through a spinoff of Keysight’s common stock, intended to be tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Agilent shareholders received one share of Keysight common stock for every two shares of Agilent common stock held as of close of business Oct. 22, 2014.

In June 2015, Keysight announced it would acquire the UK’s Anite PLC in a deal worth £388 million.[7]

Keysight also listed in the Top 50 India’s Best Companies to Work for 2015. [8]

Awards

Keysight won the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership with $300 million in instrumentation software revenue. The citation states R&D investment of 12% of revenue ($365 million in 2013) as an important factor.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Form 10-12B, Registration of securities, for SEC Accession No. 0001047469-14-001833". US Securities and Exchange Commission. 2014-03-05. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Keysight Technologies Fact Sheet" (PDF). Keysight. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Agilent Technologies Reveals Name of Electronic Measurement Spin-Off Company". Agilent. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Kelly Hill (December 9, 2014). "After spin-off, Keysight strikes out on its own". RCR Wireless News. Retrieved 2015-01-03. ...high-performance instrumentation approach for benchtop equipment ... also has been adding to its modular portfolio ... as well as portable testing products...
  5. ↑ Hindle, Patrick; Lerude, Gary (January 14, 2015). "Keysight Technologies: Reborn". Microwave Journal. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  6. ↑ Rowe, Martin (August 1, 2014). "Goodbye Agilent, hello Keysight". EDN. Retrieved 2015-01-03. Keysight is, of course, the third name for the business, having been the original company started by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. Agilent severed from HP in 1999 and now Bill and Dave's core business is once again independent.
  7. ↑ Mamidipudi Soumithri (17 June 2015). "Keysight Technologies to buy UK's Anite in $607 million deal". Reuters. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  8. ↑ Vishal Dhawan (18 July 2015). "India's Best Companies to Work For - Great Place to Work® India". Great Place to Work® Institute. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Frost & Sullivan Lauds Keysight Technologies for Maintaining its Lead in the Instrumentation Software Market". Frost & Sullivan. December 3, 2014. Retrieved 2015-01-03. Investing over 12% of its revenues in R&D, resulting into $365 million in its last fiscal year (2013), has led to the company's success, enabling it to introduce new software meeting evolving end-user technologies.

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