Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company founded in 1981 by Robert H. Swanson Jr. and Robert C. Dobkin and headquartered in Milpitas, California. It designed and manufactured high-performance analog integrated circuits across data conversion (ADCs and DACs), signal conditioning (operational amplifiers, comparators, voltage references), power management (switching and linear regulators, battery management, LED drivers), interface (RS232, RS485), radio frequency, oscillators, and space and military ICs, shipping a catalog of more than 7,500 products. Analog Devices agreed to acquire Linear Technology in July 2016 in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $14.8 billion, and the acquisition closed on March 10, 2017. Linear Technology no longer operates as an independent company: the linear.com domain permanently redirects to Analog Devices, and the Linear name survives only as the "Power by Linear" product brand. Linear Technology publishes no independent developer portal, documentation, or API surface of its own; its developer-facing successor in this network is analog-devices.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Linear Technology the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Linear Technology scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Linear Technology
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Linear Technology. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Linear Technology — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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