Agilent

Avago Technologies was created as a result of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners in a $2.66 billion transaction announced Aug. 15, 2005.

Test and Measurement- product areas: communications test products include testing solutions for fiber optics, transport networks, broadband and data networks, wireless communications, microwave networks and products, installation and maintenance solutions and operations support systems, including monitoring and network management systems; general purpose test products include general purpose instruments, modular instruments and test software, digital design products, and high-frequency electronic design tools. Automated Test- product areas: semiconductor test equipment and electronics manufacturing test equipment, including automated optical inspection, automated x-ray inspection, automated in-circuit testing and manufacturing test system software. Semiconductor Products- product areas: networking products include fiber optics and high-speed digital integrated circuits; personal systems products (for use in mobile phones, printers, PC peripherals and consumer electronics) include radio frequency and microwave communications devices such as FBAR duplexers and E-pHEMT power amplifiers; infrared emitters, detectors and transceiver modules; printing application specific integrated circuits (ASICs); optical image sensors and processors, optical position sensors, light emitting diodes (LEDs) and optocouplers. Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis- product areas: microarrays; microfluidics; gas chromatography; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; software and informatics; and related consumables, reagents and services. In 1999, Agilent was spun off from Hewlett-Packard Company.