Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Technology Corporation (listed as "Linear Technologies" in the Mayfield portfolio harvest) was an American analog semiconductor company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, designing and manufacturing high-performance analog integrated circuits — power management, data converters, amplifiers, voltage references, interface and RF products — for industrial, automotive, communications, computing, and military/aerospace markets. Backed early by Mayfield and Kleiner Perkins, it went public on NASDAQ in 1986 under the ticker LLTC and was acquired by Analog Devices in March 2017. The company no longer operates independently: its linear.com domain 301-redirects to www.analog.com, and its product lines, datasheets, and design tools (including LTspice) are now distributed through Analog Devices. As an analog component manufacturer it never operated a web/developer API program, and no public API surface exists to enrich. This profile is retained as an acquired-company lead; the successor developer surface is catalogued in the API Evangelist network under analog-devices.

Linear Technology Corporation is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Analog, Integrated Circuits, and Power Management.

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3.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Semiconductors Analog Integrated Circuits Power Management Electronic Components Hardtech Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 3.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Linear Technologies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

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Company 1

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Website

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Other 2

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Successor

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Product

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: linear-technologies
name: Linear Technology Corporation
description: 'Linear Technology Corporation (listed as "Linear Technologies" in the Mayfield portfolio harvest) was an American
  analog semiconductor company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, designing and manufacturing high-performance
  analog integrated circuits — power management, data converters, amplifiers, voltage references, interface and RF products
  — for industrial, automotive, communications, computing, and military/aerospace markets. Backed early by Mayfield and Kleiner
  Perkins, it went public on NASDAQ in 1986 under the ticker LLTC and was acquired by Analog Devices in March 2017. The company
  no longer operates independently: its linear.com domain 301-redirects to www.analog.com, and its product lines, datasheets,
  and design tools (including LTspice) are now distributed through Analog Devices. As an analog component manufacturer it
  never operated a web/developer API program, and no public API surface exists to enrich. This profile is retained as an acquired-company
  lead; the successor developer surface is catalogued in the API Evangelist network under analog-devices.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/linear-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: As an analog component manufacturer it never operated a web/developer API program, and no public API surface
  exists to enrich.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/linear-technologies.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: analog-devices
x-successor: Analog Devices
x-duplicate-of: linear-technology
x-no-api-surface: true
x-evidence:
- probe: https://www.linear.com/
  result: 301 -> https://www.analog.com/en/landing-pages/001/adi-linear-combine/index.html?source=ltc
  note: every path on linear.com, including /.well-known/*, redirects to the Analog Devices "ADI + Linear combine" landing
    page; the source=ltc query parameter is Linear Technology Corporation's NASDAQ ticker
- probe: whois linear.com
  result: registrar CSC Corporate Domains, name servers DNS1/DNS2.CSCDNS.NET — the same corporate registrar as analog.com
- probe: /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/api-catalog on www.linear.com
  result: 301 (no documents served); no well-known discovery surface of its own
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Analog
- Integrated Circuits
- Power Management
- Electronic Components
- Hardtech
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Semiconductor
- Analog
- Integrated Circuits
- Power Management
- Electronic Components
- Hardtech
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/linear-technologies-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.linear.com
- type: Successor
  name: Analog Devices
  url: https://www.analog.com
- type: Product
  name: ADI + Linear Technology (combined company landing page)
  url: https://www.analog.com/en/landing-pages/001/adi-linear-combine/index.html
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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