provides engineered solutions, as well as distributes electronic products to the radio frequency (RF) and wireless communications, industrial power conversion, security, and display systems markets worldwide.
The company’s RF and Wireless Communications Group products include RF and microwave devices, such as RF transistors, mixers, switches, amplifiers, scillators, and RF diodes; interconnect devices; fiber optics-components, including laser diodes, photo detectors, transamplifiers, and transceiver modules; and digital broadcast-components and assemblies.
Its Industrial Power Group offers power semiconductors; silicon controlled rectifiers, heat sink assemblies, and power semiconductor modules; high voltage and power capacitors; power amplifier / oscillator tubes; microwave generators; hydrogen thyratrons; thyratrons and rectifiers; ignitrons.
Richardson’s Security Systems Division provides closed circuit television, burglar and fire alarms, access control hardware-based and software-based solutions; and commercial sound systems.
The company’s Display Systems Group offers cathode ray tubes, flat panel displays, and high resolution medical displays.
Richardson was founded in 1947 by Arthur Richardson Sr.
and is headquartered in LaFox, Illinois.

