If you ask Bob Dobkin which analogue companies he admires, the list is short: “ADI”. That helps explain why he is selling the company he co-founded 35 years ago to ADI. In 1981, Bob Swanson, Bob Widlar and Bob Dobkin left National to found Linear Tech. Widlar was the greatest IC designer the industry ever …
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