[9] The company was formed in March 2000 through a management buyout of the Audio Measurement Division of Neutrik AG.

The first product was introduced in 1977 with the test & measurement department of Neutrik developing the AudioTracer frequency response chart recorder,[10] followed in 1983 by the modular AudioGraph series.

With the Rapid-Test family[13] a series of multi-tone Analyzers was introduced in 1996 providing fast production tests for the mobile phone industry.

They are equipped with IEEE488.2 GPIB interfaces with all control software developed under National Instruments LabWindows CVI.

NTi has subsidiaries in Portland (US),[18] Suzhou (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (Korea), Prague (Czech), London (UK), Limonest (France) and Essen (Germany) and sales partners in more than 50 countries worldwide.