Tyco Electronics Corporation is the largest business unit of Tyco International Ltd. Headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, it is the largest passive electronics components supplier in the world, and a leading supplier of active components – optoelectronic components, RF/microwave semiconductors, hybrid circuits and micromodules. Tyco Electronics provides advanced technology products from its AMP, Elcon, Elo Touchsystems, HTS, M/A-COM, Madison Cable, OEG, Potter & Brumfield, Raychem, Schrack, and Simel brands. Each of these brands represent industry-leading products in their respective fields. Tyco Electronics has facilities located in 56 countries serving customers in the automotive, computer, communications, consumer electronics, industrial and power industries.

Serving the gamut of OEM industries -- automotive, communications, computer & consumer electronics, appliance, industrial/commercial, and more, the AMP, M/A COM, OEG, Potter & Brumfield, Raychem and Schrack brands encompass connectors, interconnection systems, application tooling, CPU and memory device sockets, printed circuit boards, cable, relays and circuit breakers, heat shrink products, wire marking systems and circuit protection devices. Tyco Electronics’ M/A-COM unit is a leader in semiconductors, RF integrated circuits, passive and control devices, antennas, subsystems and systems for wireless communication. Elo TouchSystems unit engineers and produces touchscreen components and systems using surface wave, resistive and infrared technologies. Touchscreen products are found in point-of-sale terminals, machine and process controls, ATMs and other applications.

Serving end-user industries such as energy, telecom & outside plant, the AMP, Raychem, and Simel brands provide low- through high-voltage terminations & joints, fiber-optic connections, and fiber management systems. AMP Netconnect premises wiring systems designs and manufactures end-to-end optical fiber and copper premises cabling systems for local area networks.

Tyco Electronics Corporation was built on the foundation of AMP Incorporated, as a result of the Tyco International Ltd. acquisition of AMP in 1999. The company has grown quickly through both internal growth and acquisitions of complementary products and technologies. The products supplied by Tyco Electronics are hard to see, but are virtually everywhere. They are used in cellular phones, communications switching and networking equipment, computers, instrumentation, industrial machinery, aircraft, defense systems, automobiles, household appliances and consumer electronics. Tyco Electronics employs approximately 60,000 around the world.