| Analog Devices, Inc. is engaged in the designing, manufacturing and marketing of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits (ICs) used in industrial, communication, computer and consumer applications. The ICs are designed to address a range of signal processing applications. During the fiscal year ended November 1, 2008, the Company completed the selling of baseband chipset business and related support operations to MediaTek Inc. and the sale of the central processing unit (CPU) voltage regulation and personal computer (PC) thermal monitoring business to the subsidiaries of ON Semiconductor Corporation. |