TE History
The company that formed the initial kernel of what has become TE Connectivity was AMP, founded in September of 1941 by Uncas Whitaker, an alumn of Westinghouse and the Hoover Company to help support increased construction of military platforms for WWII. What did AMP stand for?
Aircraft Marine Products
This type of product has the advantage of allowing simultaneous bi-directional signal transmission, however, it cannot be bent past a certain radius without damaging it
Fiber Optic cable
Acquired for $2B in 2012, this Germany company, whose brand is still used by TE, is known for harsh environment connectors
DEUTCH
Founded in 1938, this company got its start making flowerpots and salt shakers from industrial byproducts before creating the first two-piece electrical interconnect component and broadly creating the electronic interconnect industry
Molex
Acronym Check: This metric is abbreviated as COPQ
COPQ
Since being spun off from Tyco International, TE has been domiciled in three nations. What are they?
Bermuda, Switzerland, and Ireland
A type of passive component sold by TE that is formed by wrapping e.g. an insulated copper wire wound into a coil. When current flows through the coil, energy is stored in the magnetic field. Hint: it's one of three passive electrical components, but not a resistor or a capacitor. It has many applications including: filtering circuit noise, transformers, energy storage, and electric motors
Inductor
Completed in 2021, this company bolstered our portfolio of fine pitch and high speed connectors and is part of our IND BU
ERNI
This company was founded in 1932 by entrepreneur Arthur J Schmitt as a manufacturer of tube sockets for radio tubes. Known in the industry for having 112 separate businesses that operate largely independently
Amphenol--Double points Opportunity!!!!: Amphenol is a portmanteau of the company's original name (like Sunoco was Sun Oil Company).
Name that BU: This BU generally serves very long life-cycle platforms. Of all BUs, it has the lowest percentage of its business in APAC (less than 10%)
ADM
This company, founded by MIT grad Paul Cook, was acquired by Tyco a month after purchasing AMP, and bolstered capabilities in heat shrink tubing, cable assemblies/harnessing, and wire/cable, as well as material science more broadly
Raychem
This product is an electromechanical switch that controls power or signal transmission
Relay (also accept contactor, which is a heavy duty version of a relay)
Billed as a "Smart Grid" acquisition by TE's Energy BU, this enabled TE to provide grid monitoring, protection, and automation solutions
KREIS
Our competitor and neighbor (HQ in Schaffhausen, tax domiciled in Ireland), this company was spun out of GM and manufactures a wide range of automotive components and solutions
Aptiv
Name this TE Location: In a town named for a mountain range that translates to "white peak" in its original Welsh
Berwyn
After WWII, AMP developed an electrical splice that was used in the creation of this popular children's toy
Slinky
This component is designed to match the impedence of the surrounding air, used for reception and transmission
Antenna
This medical products company was acquired for $895M in 2016 and added to a prior acquisition of AdvancedCath to fill out the Medical BU with a focus on minimally invasive delivery devices
Creganna
This company was founded in Xiamen in 1984, and by 2016 became the largest relay manufacturer in the world, with sales over $10B
Hongfa
Name this TE Facility: This site is the home of a public-private research partnership operated by TE, with a special focus on modeling and analytics
Singapore
In 2007, Tyco International split into 3 companies: One which became Tyco Electronics (and later TE connectivity), and two others. What were the two other companies?
Covidien (healthcare) and Tyco International (Security), later merged with Johnson Controls
This product provides insulation, mechanical protection, environmental sealing, and strain relief and is designed for quick install, conforming to a wide range of sizes and shapes
Heat Shrink Tubing
Originally purchased by AMP in 1995, TE divested this business in multiple transactions over a decade later, selling RF/Microwave components business to Cobham and its consumer business to an investor group, while retaining its wireless systems business unit
MACOM
Headquartered in Attleboro Mass, this company was spun out of Texas Instruments in 2006. They are known for providing mission-critical sensing, electrical protection, control, and power management solutions across various industries
Sensata
This is the mascot for Albright College, among whose alumni include TE CEO Terrence Curtin
Lions