Agilent Technologies Incorporated
Agilent Technologies is the actual descendant of the instrument company founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. After 60 years of existence as part of Hewlett-Packard it was spun off from HP in 1999. Agilent is an $8 billion company with about 30,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, and test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.
Significant Agilent test & measurement product categories include:
Agilent technologies has a robust research and development program as part of Agilent Laboratories, with active research in MEMS, nanotechnology, and Life Sciences.
Agilent Technologies has an active investment group, Agilent Ventures, which invests in High Tech start up companies. Investments include MEMX, Infinera, and Telasics.
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