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The rate of change accelerates with Web-based information and applications becoming pervasive, competition intensifying and time-to-market cycles greatly reduced.
1990
- HP creates new test and measurement organization and appoints
Ned Barnholt to lead it.
- Company enters the sample preparation field with its new
super-critical fluid extractor.
- Net Revenue: $13.2 billion; Employees: 91,500.
1991
- Acquisition of Avantek broadens the offering of components
for the worldwide communications market.
 1992
- New atomic clock is introduced. It becomes the world’s
most precise commercially available timekeeping device.
- 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.
- Company introduces its first protein-sequencing system.
The device allows for completely automated analysis of proteins
and peptide samples.
- Optical spectrum analyzer proves to be an important product
for use in the fast growing optical communications field.
- New modular oscilloscope is introduced, to be used in the
design of high-speed digital electronics products.
- Introduction of amber and red-orange LEDs expand the range
of LED applications in cars, traffic-control signals, and
moving-message panels.
- Lewis E. Platt is named president and CEO.
1993
- AcceSS7 network monitoring system allows telecommunications
customers to monitor all the elements on SS7 networks from
a central location, increasing the efficiency of communications
networks.
- HP 3D Capillary Electrophoresis system offers bioscientists
leading-edge separation capabilities.
- Company enters the digital integrated-circuit product-test
market with the HP 83000 system.
1994
- Revenues reach $25 billion.
- The introduction of the world’s brightest LED . Combining
bright output, reliability and low power consumption, it replaces
incandescent lamps in many new applications.
- Joint venture is established
in China with Shanghai Analytical Instrument Factory.
- The company enters the DNA-analysis field to develop systems
and products to be used in pharmaceutical research and the
healthcare industry.
- The company marks its entry into the inorganics market with
the first inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
that fits on a bench-top. Previously, chemists had to rely
on large systems often installed in special laboratories run
by specialist operators. The new system brings ICP-MS (for
the determination of trace metals) into the routine laboratory
environment.
- The 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.
1995
- Decades of experience in quartz technology and cesium time
standards result in timing synchronization products that enable
networks to function with higher levels of accuracy and reliability
needed to deliver new digital services for voice, data and
video communication.
- The industry’s first low-cost, high-speed small infrared
transceiver allows wireless “point and shoot” data
exchange in a wide range of portable computing applications
such as phones, computers, printers, cash registers, ATMs,
digital cameras and more.
- The HP 6890 series gas chromatograph system offers new levels
of performance and push-button control, eases regulatory compliance,
and provides a platform for the next generation of high-performance
gas chromatography.
- The second-generation atomic-emission detector (AED) measures
most elements at the part-per-trillion level and is the only
commercially available AED system for use with gas chromatographs.
- The broadband service analyzer is a new portable tool for
installing broadband networks. It represents a breakthrough
in ease of use. The analyzer can set up complex tests to measure
network quality with the touch of a button, making complex
ATM technology accessible.
1996
- Co-founder David Packard dies on March 26.
- Introduction of the 1100 Series liquid chromatograph mass
selective detector. The HP 1100 is designed to help chemists
support faster product-development cycles (such as those for
new pharmaceuticals) and improve the quality of analytical
results.
- Creation of a network-timing synchronization for wired and
wireless high-speed, digital networks eliminates many problems
in transmitting data or images over telephone lines, such
as dropped fax lines and modem disconnects, or in handing-off
cellular calls from one base station to another, which can
also result in dropped calls.
 1997
- Acquisition of Heartstream Inc. adds the Heartstream Forerunner
to medical products portfolio. The book-size automatic external
defibrillator enables trained users such as flight attendants,
police and first-aid teams to respond quickly and effectively
to victims of sudden cardiac arrest.
- First generation lab-on-a-chip technology integrates a large
number of chemical manipulations on a single chip, speeding
up chemical analysis and significantly reducing cost and enabling
digital information sharing.
- GeneArray Scanner, which can identify thousands of mutations
in DNA captured on the surface of a microchip, substantially
reduces analysis time.
- LumiLeds Lighting, a joint venture with Philips Lighting
B.V., introduces a revolutionary package of signal components
for the traffic-light industry.
- Net Revenue: $42.9 billion; Employees: 121,900.
1998
- The innovative HP 3070 Series 3 board-test system allows
manufacturers to test printed circuit boards faster and more
effectively than before.
- The HP 95000 HSM high-speed memory test system can be used
for high-volume production testing of RDRAM chips. These chips
operate at 800 MHz and offer memory-chip manufacturers the
smallest footprint, lowest cost of test, and lowest-risk solution
available.
- The Service Advisor, a low-cost, easy-to-use “tablet”
test platform for service installers, accepts a variety of
interchangeable modules for telecom testing services ranging
from ADSL (asymmetrical digital subscriber line) to ATM transmission.
- The HP E6432A is a new VXI microwave synthesizer suited
for a variety of automated-test applications, including field
tests, avionics, communications systems and other manufacturing-test
applications.
- The TestBook Wireless is an integrated diagnostic solution
that offers technicians centralized access to diagnostic and
customer-service information in the service bay or field,
thereby increasing technicians’ productivity and reducing
repair costs for customers.
- Collaboration begins with Caliper Technologies to develop
lab-on-a-chip systems that integrates large number of chemical
manipulations on a single chip, speeding up chemical analysis
and significantly reducing lab costs.
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