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Our History
1990s
The rate of change accelerates with Web-based information and applications becoming pervasive, competition intensifying and time-to-market cycles greatly reduced.
HP is one of the few companies in the world to successfully marry the technologies of measurement, computing and communication. HP makes new advances in portable computing, enters the home-computing market and continues to invent new printing and imaging solutions. For most of the decade, HP enjoys growth rates of 20 percent.
Early in the 90s, John Young retires and is replaced by Lew Platt, under whose leadership HP continues to grow. HP becomes recognized as a HP whose policies on work-life balance, diversity and community involvement help attract and retain top employees.
At the end of the decade, HP spins off its measurement and components businesses to form a new HP, Agilent Technologies. The parts of HP that are now Verigy was part of this spin off, and became part of Agilent Technologies.
1990
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HP creates new test and measurement organization and appoints Ned Barnholt to lead it.
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HP Labs Japan opens in Tokyo.
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The Versatest V1000/2000 Flash Memory ATE system is introduced with the "Tester-Per-Site" architecture.
1991
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The HP83000 F660 is introduced to the market; a high-speed digital only test system; offered the highest data-rate available in a commercial test-system at that time.
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Wafer cooling is introduced into the SoC tester, allowing exceptional timing accuracy for high-speed test, a low noise floor for analog and RF test, plus high reliability.
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HP makes advances in lightweight portable computing with the introduction of HP 95LX palmtop PC, HP's first palmtop personal computer
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HP initiates a recycling program for its HP LaserJet print cartridges.
1992
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New atomic clock is introduced. It becomes the world’s most precise commercially available timekeeping device.
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A new test set generates and detects data streams of up to 2.5 billion data bits per second, allowing telecommunications manufacturers to verify the performance of transmission equipment.
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A new modular oscilloscope is introduced, to be used in the design of high-speed digital electronics products.
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John Young retires; Lew Platt, an engineer and head of the Computer Systems Organization, is elected president and CEO and a member of the board of directors. Platt, an HP employee since 1966, wins kudos inside and outside HP for championing diversity in the workplace, establishing a balance between work and personal life for employees and directing HP to become a leader in community involvement.
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HP develops Design for Environment guidelines with the goal of making products more environmentally sound. The program addresses environmental performance at the design stage of product development. DfE's three priorities are energy efficiency, design for recyclability and materials innovation.
1993
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HP ships its 10 millionth HP LaserJet printer.
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Dave Packard retires as chairman of the board of directors, and Lew Platt is elected chairman.
1994
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A Joint Venture is established in China with Shanghai Analytical Instrument Factory.
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The HP Broadband Series Test System emerges as an industry standard. First to test ATM and broadband ISDN networks—and first to integrate testing of all layers of this complex technology—the system helps the industry prove that these new technologies can form the basis of an information highway for transporting voice, data, image and video over the same network. The technical expertise gained from this work contributes to Verigy’s leadership in communications testing.
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HP Labs Israel opens in Haifa.
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HP begins collaboration with Intel to develop a common 64-bit microprocessor architecture for the computers of the 21st century. The work draws on years of research at HP Labs to create a replacement for PA-RISC processors. Known as IA-64, the new processor (now called Itanium) debuts in 2001.
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Telecommuting policies are formalized, making HP one of the first companies to encourage telecommuting around the world. Employees can work at home or at remote HP offices. The result is rising job satisfaction, reduced commute time, increased flexibility to coordinate personal and work schedules, and lower levels of stress. HP benefits from reduced office-space requirements and improved employee retention.
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Versatest is acquired by Hewlett-Packard
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HP introduces the HP 84000 RFIC test system.
1995
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The industry's first pay-per-use model is introduced.
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The HP Pavilion PC marks HP's highly successful introduction into the home-computing market.
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Dave Packard publishes “The HP Way”, a book that chronicles the rise of HP and gives insight into the business practices, culture and management style that helped make it a success.
1996
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Co-founder David Packard dies on March 26.
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Five years after starting its LaserJet cartridge recycling program, HP recycles its 10 millionth LaserJet print cartridge.
1997
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HP becomes one of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).
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HP´s recycling program expands to include HP inkjet print cartridges in addition to LaserJet cartridges.
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HP opens its first recycling facility in Roseville, California, becoming the only major computer manufacturer to operate its own end-to-end recycling facility.
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The HP 94000 Analog and Mixed-Signal Test system is introduced; designed and manufactured in Japan.
1998
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The innovative HP 3070 Series 3 board-test system allows manufacturers to test printed circuit boards faster and more effectively than before.
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The HP 95000 HSM high-speed memory test system is introduced for use in high-volume production testing of RDRAM chips, which operate at 800 MHz. The 95000 HSM offers memory-chip manufacturers the smallest footprint, lowest cost-of-test, and lowest-risk solution available.
1999
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HP announces strategic realignment to create an independent measurement HP composed of test and measurement components, chemical analysis and medical businesses, and a computing and imaging HP that includes all of HP’s computing, printing and imaging businesses.
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Agilent Technologies, the name of the new measurement HP, is announced at historic brand-identity launch event in San Jose, Calif., announced by Agilent President and Chief Executive Officer Ned Barnholt.
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Initial public stock offering on Nov. 18, 1999, raises $2.1 billion and breaks records as the largest IPO in Silicon Valley history.
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The V93000 is introduced, with a third-generation water cooling and Test Processor-Per-Pin architecture, resulting in the smallest footprint in the industry for an SOC test system.
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