Linear Technology

Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company founded in 1981 by Robert H. Swanson Jr. and Robert C. Dobkin and headquartered in Milpitas, California. It designed and manufactured high-performance analog integrated circuits across data conversion (ADCs and DACs), signal conditioning (operational amplifiers, comparators, voltage references), power management (switching and linear regulators, battery management, LED drivers), interface (RS232, RS485), radio frequency, oscillators, and space and military ICs, shipping a catalog of more than 7,500 products. Analog Devices agreed to acquire Linear Technology in July 2016 in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $14.8 billion, and the acquisition closed on March 10, 2017. Linear Technology no longer operates as an independent company: the linear.com domain permanently redirects to Analog Devices, and the Linear name survives only as the "Power by Linear" product brand. Linear Technology publishes no independent developer portal, documentation, or API surface of its own; its developer-facing successor in this network is analog-devices.

Linear Technology is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Hardtech, Semiconductor, Analog, and Integrated Circuits.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyHardtechSemiconductorAnalogIntegrated CircuitsPower ManagementAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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Security Posture 1

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Linear Technology Domain Security

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Access & Security 1

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: linear-technology
name: Linear Technology
description: 'Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company founded in 1981 by Robert H. Swanson Jr.
  and Robert C. Dobkin and headquartered in Milpitas, California. It designed and manufactured high-performance analog integrated
  circuits across data conversion (ADCs and DACs), signal conditioning (operational amplifiers, comparators, voltage references),
  power management (switching and linear regulators, battery management, LED drivers), interface (RS232, RS485), radio frequency,
  oscillators, and space and military ICs, shipping a catalog of more than 7,500 products. Analog Devices agreed to acquire
  Linear Technology in July 2016 in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $14.8 billion, and the acquisition closed
  on March 10, 2017. Linear Technology no longer operates as an independent company: the linear.com domain permanently redirects
  to Analog Devices, and the Linear name survives only as the "Power by Linear" product brand. Linear Technology publishes
  no independent developer portal, documentation, or API surface of its own; its developer-facing successor in this network
  is analog-devices.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/linear-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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-technology.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-backed-by-note: Inherited from the VC-portfolio stub that created this repo; not independently verified in this enrichment
  round.
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: analog-devices
x-acquired-announced: 2016-07
x-acquired-closed: '2017-03-10'
x-acquired-value: USD 14.8 billion (cash and stock)
x-successor: analog-devices
x-successor-repo: https://github.com/api-evangelist/analog-devices
x-tier: archived
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-independent-api-surface
x-enrichment-note: Enrichment round 2026-07-19 found no independent API surface. Every probed path on www.linear.com (/.well-known/security.txt,
  /.well-known/openid-configuration, /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, /.well-known/api-catalog, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json,
  /llms.txt, /openapi.json) returns HTTP 301 to the Analog Devices "ADI + Linear combine" landing page. No GitHub organization,
  no first-party packages on npm/PyPI, no OpenAPI, no MCP server. The npm package @linear/sdk belongs to Linear (linear.app),
  an unrelated issue-tracking company, and is deliberately NOT associated with this repo. API artifacts for the surviving
  business live in all/analog-devices.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Hardtech
- Semiconductor
- Analog
- Integrated Circuits
- Power Management
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/linear-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.analog.com/en/landing-pages/001/adi-linear-combine/index.html?source=ltc
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Technology
- type: Successor
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/analog-devices/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence