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Keysight Technologies, or Keysight, is an

American company that manufactures electronics Keysight Technologies, Inc.
test and measurement equipment and software. The
name is a blend of key and insight.[2][4] The
company was formed as a spin-off of Agilent
Technologies, which inherited and rebranded the Type Public
test and measurement product lines developed and
Traded as NYSE: KEYS (https://www.ny
produced from the late 1960s to the turn of the
se.com/quote/XNYS:KEYS)
millennium by Hewlett-Packard's Test &
Measurement division. S&P 500 component
Industry Electronics
Products Predecessors Electronic test and
measurement division of HP
Keysight's products include hardware and software and later Agilent
for benchtop, modular, and field instruments.[5] Founded 2014
Instruments include oscilloscopes, multimeters,
Headquarters Santa Rosa, California, U.S.[1]
logic analyzers, signal generators, spectrum
analyzers, vector network analyzers, atomic force Key people Ron Nersesian
microscopes (AFM), automated optical inspection, (Chairman)
automated X-ray inspection (5DX), in-circuit Satish Dhanasekaran
testers, power supplies, tunable lasers, optical (CEO & president)[2]
power meters, wavelength-meters, electro-optic Products Electronic measurement
converters, optical modulation analyzers and equipment
handheld tools.[6] In addition, it produces
Revenue US$5.42 billion (2022)
electronic design automation (EDA) software
(EEsof division).[7] It mainly serves the Operating US$1.33 billion (2022)
income
telecommunications, aerospace/defense, industrial,
computer, and semiconductor industries.[8] Net income US$1.12 billion (2022)
Total assets US$8.10 billion (2022)
In 2021, the United States Department of State
fined Keysight $6.6 million for unauthorized sales Total equity US$4.16 billion (2022)
of defense-related software to China, Russia, and 15 Number of c. 15,000 (2022)
other countries from 2015 to 2018, in violation of employees
the Arms Export Control Act and the International Divisions PathWave Design
Traffic in Arms Regulations.[9] According to the
PathWave Test
State Department, some of the sales posed a risk to
national security, and the company had been oscilloscopes
notified of potential unauthorized data transactions vector network analyzers
in 2017. Keysight agreed to pay the fine and to hire modular instruments
a compliance officer to conduct future audits.[10] field instruments
bench instruments
Research and development Website keysight.com (http://keysigh
t.com)

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Since its launch in 2014, Keysight has increased its Footnotes / references
investment in R&D from approximately 12% to 16%, Financials as of October 31, 2022[3]
a percentage that represents more than double the
investment in absolute dollars.[11]

Awards
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.[12]

In recent years, Keysight received a ranking of #46 on Forbes list of “American’s Best Midsize
Companies.[6]”

Keysight was recently ranked #46 on Fortune's 2022 100 Best Companies to Work for.[13]

References
1. "Form 10-12B, Registration of securities, for SEC Accession No. 0001047469-14-
001833" (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1601046/000104746914001833/00
01047469-14-001833-index.htm). US Securities and Exchange Commission. 2014-03-
05. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
2. "Keysight Technologies Fact Sheet" (http://about.keysight.com/en/companyinfo/Keysig
ht_FactSheet.pdf) (PDF). Keysight. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
3. "Keysight Technologies, Inc. 2022 Annual Report (Form 10-K)" (https://www.sec.gov/ix?
doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1601046/000160104622000161/keys-20221031.htm). U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. 15 December 2022.
4. "Agilent Technologies Reveals Name of Electronic Measurement Spin-Off Company" (ht
tps://web.archive.org/web/20191208020546/https://www.agilent.com/about/newsroo
m/presrel/2014/07jan-gp14001.html). Agilent. 7 January 2014. Archived from the
original (http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2014/07jan-gp14001.html)
on 8 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
5. Kelly Hill (December 9, 2014). "After spin-off, Keysight strikes out on its own" (http://ww
w.rcrwireless.com/20141209/test-and-measurement/keysight-spin-off-tag6). 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..."
6. "Keysight News Archive | Agilent Technologies Reveals Name of Electronic
Measurement Spin-Off Company | Keysight Press Release" (https://about.keysight.com/
en/newsroom/pr/2014/07jan-gp14001.shtml). about.keysight.com. 2014-01-07.
Retrieved 2018-10-19.
7. Keysight. "Circuit Design Software" (https://www.keysight.com/us/en/products/design-s
oftware.html). Keysight.
8. Hindle, Patrick; Lerude, Gary (January 14, 2015). "Keysight Technologies: Reborn" (htt
p://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/23641-keysight-technologies-reborn).
Microwave Journal. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
9. Swindell, Bill (August 16, 2021). "Keysight Technologies penalized $6.6 million after
exporting unauthorized software" (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/north-bay/k
eysight-technologies-penalized-6-6-million-after-exporting-unauthorized-s/). The Press
Democrat. Retrieved July 27, 2022.

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10. Forrester, Brett (August 9, 2021). "State Department Fines Radar Company for
Unauthorized Exports to China, Russia" (https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-department
-fines-radar-company-for-unauthorized-exports-to-china-russia-11628531273). The
Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
11. "Pushing the limits of tech measurement" (https://www.fastcompany.com/90666225/pu
shing-the-limits-of-tech-measurement). 17 August 2021.
12. "Frost & Sullivan Lauds Keysight Technologies for Maintaining its Lead in the
Instrumentation Software Market" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150110064947/htt
p://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/frost-sullivan-lauds-keysight-technologies-main
taining-its-lead-instrumentation-software-market). Frost & Sullivan. December 3, 2014.
Archived from the original (http://ww2.frost.com/news/press-releases/frost-sullivan-lau
ds-keysight-technologies-maintaining-its-lead-instrumentation-software-market/) on
January 10, 2015. 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."
13. "100 Best Companies to Work For" (https://fortune.com/best-companies/2022/).
Fortune. Retrieved 2022-07-20.

External links
Official website (https://www.keysight.com/)
Business data for Keysight Technologies: Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/quo
te/KEYS:US) · Google (https://www.google.com/finance?q=KEYS) · SEC filings (https://
www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1601046) · Yahoo! (http
s://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KEYS)
Top 12 public test and measurement companies by revenue (http://www.rcrwireless.co
m/20140822/test-and-measurement/top-10-test-measurement-companies-revenue-ta
g6)
New Keysight CEO kicks electronic measurement company into overdrive (http://www.n
orthbaybusinessjournal.com/98195/best-places-to-work-2014-keysight-technologies/)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20150227103245/http://www.northbaybusinessj
ournal.com/98195/best-places-to-work-2014-keysight-technologies/) 2015-02-27 at
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