Oscilloscope Background

The worldwide oscilloscope market is valued at about 1.1 billion USD in 2012 (Frost & Sullivan) and is dominated by Tektronix, Keysight and Teledyne LeCroy.

Only 3 manufacturers are offering oscilloscopes with a bandwidth greater than 50 GHz: Keysight, Tektronix and Teledyne LeCroy. Read more...

In 2014 Teledyne LeCroy launched first 100GHz sampling realtime oscilloscope with 240 GS/s sampling rate the LabMaster 10-100Zi. Read more...

In 2010 Rohde & Schwarz entered the oscilloscope market. 2005 the company acquired HAMEG, a manufacturer of low-end oscilloscopes. Read more...

In 1996 Hewlett-Packard introduced the first mixed-signal oscilloscope (MSO) with two 100 MHz analog channels and 8 or 16 digital logic channels - the HP 54645. Read more...