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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Electronics |
Founded | 1957 |
Founder | Dean A. Watkins, H. Richard Johnson |
Fate | Acquired by TriQuint Semiconductor |
Successor | WJ Communications Inc. |
Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
Key people | W. Keith Kennedy (former CEO) |
Watkins-Johnson Company was a designer and manufacturer of electronic devices, systems, and equipment. The company, commonly referred to as "W-J", was formed in 1957 by Dean A. Watkins and H. Richard Johnson, and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its products included microwave tubes, followed by solid-state microwave devices, electronic warfare subsystems and systems, receiving equipment, antennas, furnaces and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and automated test equipment. [1] [2]
Partial Corporate Timeline
The Watkins-Johnson plant in Scotts Valley, California was discovered to have soil and groundwater contamination in 1984. It was added to the EPA's Superfund list in 1990. [13]
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Electronics |
Founded | 1957 |
Founder | Dean A. Watkins, H. Richard Johnson |
Fate | Acquired by TriQuint Semiconductor |
Successor | WJ Communications Inc. |
Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
Key people | W. Keith Kennedy (former CEO) |
Watkins-Johnson Company was a designer and manufacturer of electronic devices, systems, and equipment. The company, commonly referred to as "W-J", was formed in 1957 by Dean A. Watkins and H. Richard Johnson, and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its products included microwave tubes, followed by solid-state microwave devices, electronic warfare subsystems and systems, receiving equipment, antennas, furnaces and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and automated test equipment. [1] [2]
Partial Corporate Timeline
The Watkins-Johnson plant in Scotts Valley, California was discovered to have soil and groundwater contamination in 1984. It was added to the EPA's Superfund list in 1990. [13]