keys 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 2015 2 number of employees 10 250 2015 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 contents 1 products 2 history 3 awards 4 see also 5 references 6 external links products edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit agilent technologies hewlett packard keysight eesof eda references edit 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 . a b c d keysight technologies fact sheet pdf . keysight . 17 november 2014 . retrieved 19 december 2014 . agilent technologies reveals name of electronic measurement spin off company . agilent . 7 january 2014 . retrieved 19 december 2014 . 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 ... hindle patrick ; lerude gary january 14 2015 . keysight technologies reborn . microwave journal . retrieved 2015 01 15 . 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 . mamidipudi soumithri 17 june 2015 . keysight technologies to buy uk s anite in 607 million deal . reuters . retrieved 17 june 2015 . 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 . 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 . external links edit official website business data for keysight technologies hoover s bloomberg reuters sec filings top 12 public test and measurement companies by revenue new keysight ceo kicks electronic measurement company into overdrive v t e agilent technologies company founders hp william hewlett david packard varian russell h. and sigurd f. varian william webster hansen edward ginzton agilent spun off from hp in 1999 and acquired varian inc in 2010 board of directors james cullen non executive chairman william p. sullivan ceo director paul n. clark heidi fields robert j. herbold koh boon hwee david m. lawrence m.d. a. barry rand tadataka yamada m.d. executive officers william p. bill sullivan ron nersesian rick burdsall gooi soon chai neil dougherty solange glaize jean m. halloran didier hirsch lars holmkvist marie oh huber mike mcmullen shiela barr robertson nick roelofs guy s n darlene j. s. solomon ph.d. neil dougherty lon justice john pouk stephen williams software agilent chemstation agilent vee advanced design system agilent ceos edward w. ned barnholt william p. sullivan see also hp varian verigy avago v t e hewlett packard hp inc. hewlett packard enterprise founders william hewlett david packard directors marc andreessen shumeet banerji rajiv l. gupta raymond j. lane ann livermore gary m. reiner patricia f. russo jim skinner meg whitman chairman executive officers meg whitman todd bradley dave donatelli martin fink henry gomez john hinshaw marty homlish george kadifa tracy keogh cathie lesjak mike nefkens john f. schultz bill veghte computer hardware products bladesystem compaq presario business desktops elitebook zbook probook integrity nonstop proliant pavilion touchsmart mini hp envy slate 500 consumer electronics and accessories calculators deskjet photosmart laserjet ipaq lightscribe palm scitex snapfish other divisions 3com arcsight indigo digital press scitex hp insight software procurve hp enterprise services tower software software mercury autonomy webos vertica hp quickplay hyperspace os hp ux openvms tippingpoint services hp helion hp cloud discontinued products compaq deskpro compaq evo compaq portable compaq prolinea compaq prosignia compaq systempro jornada omnibook ipod hp voodoopc touchpad closed division voodoopc logoworks hp ceos list of hp ceos in order co founders william hewlett and david packard john a. young lewis e. platt carly fiorina mark hurd l o apotheker meg whitman assets hp garage hp labs see also acquisitions agilent avago technologies verigy keysight technologies hp spying scandal products mission space retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title keysight & oldid 743796135 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangetechnology companies established in 2014electronics companies of the united stateshewlett packardelectronic test equipment manufacturers2014 establishments in the united stateshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 09 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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