Burr-Brown Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of proprietary, standard, high-performance, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic signal processing. The Company's products are used in a wide range of applications: industrial process and control, telecommunications, test and measurement, medical and scientific instrumentation, medical imaging, digital audio and video, personal computing and multimedia.

The Company was incorporated in Arizona in 1956 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1983. The Company is public with stock trading on NASDAQ under the symbol, BBRC. For 1998, sales and earnings were $258,094,000 and $0.94/share (diluted), respectively.