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Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Company typePublic
Industry
  • Electronics
PredecessorsElectronic test and measurement division of HP and laterAgilent Technologies
Founded2014;10 years ago(2014)
HeadquartersSanta Rosa, California,U.S.[1]
Key people
Ron Nersesian
(Chairman)
Satish Dhanasekaran
(CEO&president)[2]
Products
  • Electronic measurement equipment
RevenueIncreaseUS$5.46 billion(2023)
IncreaseUS$1.36 billion(2023)
DecreaseUS$1.06 billion(2023)
Total assetsIncreaseUS$8.68 billion(2023)
Total equityIncreaseUS$4.65 billion(2023)
Number of employees
c. 14,900(2023)
Divisions
  • PathWave Design
  • PathWave Test
  • oscilloscopes
  • vector network analyzers
  • modular instruments
  • field instruments
  • bench instruments
Websitekeysight
Footnotes / references
Financials as of October 31, 2023.[3]

Keysight Technologies, Inc.,orKeysight,is an American company that manufactures electronics test and measurement equipment and software. The name is a blend ofkeyandinsight.[2][4]The company was formed as a spin-off ofAgilent Technologies,which inherited and rebranded the test and measurement product lines developed and produced from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium byHewlett-Packard's Test & Measurement division.

Products

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Keysight's products include hardware and software for benchtop, modular, and field instruments.[5]Instruments includeoscilloscopes,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,tunable lasers,optical power meters,wavelength-meters, electro-optic converters, optical modulation analyzers and handheld tools.[6]In addition, it produceselectronic design automation(EDA) software (EEsofdivision).[7]It mainly serves the telecommunications, aerospace/defense, industrial, computer, and semiconductor industries.[8]

History

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Acquisitions

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Keysight acquired data technology companyIxiafor about $1.6billion in cash in 2017.[9][10]In 2023, the company acquired France-basedESI Groupfor approximately $1billion.[11]In 2024, Keysight outbidViavi Solutionsto acquire British telecommunications testing companySpirentfor $1.5billion.[12]

Controversies

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The 2017Tubbs wildfireincinerated two buildings on the headquarters campus of Keysight in theFountain Groveneighborhood of Santa Rosa, causing the complete loss of historical archives of Hewlett-Packard (consisting of over 100 boxes of documents from William Hewlett and David Packard, who had founded the company in Silicon Valley in 1938).[13]A former HP employee who had previously been in charge of the archives commented that "a huge piece of American business history is gone", and Keysight disputed criticism that the archives (which it had acquired at the time of its founding in 2014) had been inadequately protected.[13]

In 2021, theUnited States Department of Statefined Keysight $6.6 million for unauthorized sales of defense-related software to China, Russia, and 15 other countries from 2015 to 2018, in violation of theArms Export Control Actand theInternational Traffic in Arms Regulations.[14]According to the State Department, some of the sales posed a risk to national security, and the company had been notified of potential unauthorized data transactions in 2017. Keysight agreed to pay the fine and to hire a compliance officer to conduct future audits.[15]

Research and development

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From its launch in 2014 until 2020, Keysight increased its investment inR&Dfrom approximately 12% to 16%, a percentage increase that represented almost a doubling of the investment in absolute dollars.[16]

Awards

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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.[17][non-primary source needed]

In recent years, Keysight received a ranking of #46 on Forbes list of “American’s Best Midsize Companies.[6]”

Keysight was recently ranked #46 on Fortune's 2022 100 Best Companies to Work for.[18]

References

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  1. ^"Form 10-12B, Registration of securities, for SEC Accession No. 0001047469-14-001833".US Securities and Exchange Commission. 2014-03-05.Retrieved19 December2014.
  2. ^ab"Keysight Technologies Fact Sheet"(PDF).Keysight. 17 November 2014.Retrieved19 December2014.
  3. ^"Keysight Technologies, Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)".U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.15 December 2023.
  4. ^"Agilent Technologies Reveals Name of Electronic Measurement Spin-Off Company".Agilent. 7 January 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 8 December 2019.Retrieved19 December2014.
  5. ^Kelly Hill (December 9, 2014)."After spin-off, Keysight strikes out on its own".RCR Wireless News.Retrieved2015-01-03....high-performance instrumentation approach for benchtop equipment... also has been adding to its modular portfolio... as well as portable testing products...
  6. ^ab"Keysight News Archive | Agilent Technologies Reveals Name of Electronic Measurement Spin-Off Company | Keysight Press Release".about.keysight.2014-01-07.Retrieved2018-10-19.
  7. ^Keysight."Circuit Design Software".Keysight.
  8. ^Hindle, Patrick; Lerude, Gary (January 14, 2015)."Keysight Technologies: Reborn".Microwave Journal.Retrieved2015-01-15.
  9. ^"Keysight Technologies to buy Ixia for $1.6 billion".Reuters. January 30, 2017.RetrievedMarch 30,2024.
  10. ^"Keysight Technologies Announces Closing of Acquisition of Ixia"(Press release). Keysight. April 18, 2017.RetrievedMarch 30,2024.
  11. ^"Keysight to buy French software firm ESI Group for nearly $1 billion".Reuters. June 28, 2023.
  12. ^"Keysight outbids rival Viavi to buy UK's Spirent for $1.5 billion".Reuters. March 29, 2024.
  13. ^abDigitale, Robert (2017-10-29)."HP historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires".Santa Rosa Press Democrat.Retrieved2023-06-03.
  14. ^Swindell, Bill (August 16, 2021)."Keysight Technologies penalized $6.6 million after exporting unauthorized software".The Press Democrat.RetrievedJuly 27,2022.
  15. ^Forrester, Brett (August 9, 2021)."State Department Fines Radar Company for Unauthorized Exports to China, Russia".The Wall Street Journal.RetrievedJuly 28,2022.
  16. ^"Pushing the limits of tech measurement".17 August 2021.
  17. ^"Frost & Sullivan Lauds Keysight Technologies for Maintaining its Lead in the Instrumentation Software Market".Frost & Sullivan.December 3, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon January 10, 2015.Retrieved2015-01-03.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.
  18. ^"100 Best Companies to Work For".Fortune.Retrieved2022-07-20.
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  • Official website
  • Business data for Keysight Technologies:
  • Top 12 public test and measurement companies by revenue
  • New Keysight CEO kicks electronic measurement company into overdriveArchived2015-02-27 at theWayback Machine
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