Agilent Technologies or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. Agilent Technologies has a stock market capitalization of over 15 billion USD and the company's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley region.Many of Agilent's predecessor product lines were developed by Hewlett-Packard, the American computing company founded in 1939. In 1999, the product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to the public in an initial public offering. The Agilent IPO may have been the largest in the history of Silicon Valley at the time.The company thus created in 1999 was an $8 billion company with about 47,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and electronic test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production. In 2011, the company along with the University of California, Davis, announced that it would be establishing the Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center.Agilent Technologies has a robust research and development arm, Agilent Laboratories orAgilent Labs, with active research in numerous areas including MEMS, nanotechnology, and life sciences.HP labs was divided into two central labs when Agilent was carved out of HP in 1999.Both laboratories have had distinct success throughout the years including development inX-ray technology, traffic monitoring, and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Net income $ 1.01 billion (2011)
Total assets $ 9.06 billion (2011)