Precision Monolithics

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Precision Monolithics, Inc.
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fate = Merged
successor = Analog Devices, Inc.
foundation =
defunct = August, 1990
location = Santa Clara, California, USA
industry = Semiconductors
key_people =
products = Linear Integrated Circuits
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parent =
subsid =

Precision Monolithics, Inc. also known in the electronics industry (and popularly) as PMI, was an American company based in Santa Clara, California, USA that developed and produced linear semiconductors.

The company was founded in the early 1970s by George Erdi (who left Fairchild Semiconductor) and co-founder Dan Dooley.

PMI started business designing linear semiconductors, including operational amplifiers (including the famous OP07), some of which garnered U.S. patents. They later expanded their efforts to include high-precision voltage references and mixed-signal semiconductors for data acquisition, data conversion, and telecommunications.

PMI also bought Solid State Micro Technology. Erdi left PMI in 1981 to co-found Linear Technology. PMI was founded as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bourns, inc. PMI was finally bought by Analog Devices in August 1990.

Many of PMI's voltage references and other linear ICs (including the REF0x and OP0x series) continue to be manufactured and marketed by Analog Devices, and still manage to maintain a sizeable share of the precision linear market.

ee also

*Analog Devices