The Burr-Brown Corporation was an American technology company in Tucson, Arizona, which designed, manufactured, and marketed a broad line of proprietary, standard, high-performance, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) used in electronic signal processing. The company's products were used in a wide range of applications: industrial process and control, including nuclear power generation, telecommunications, test and measurement, medical and scientific instrumentation, medical imaging, digital audio and video, personal computing and multimedia.
In September 2000, Texas Instruments acquired the company for US$7.6 billion.[1]
History
In 1983, the company reincorporated in Delaware and went public with stock trading on NASDAQ under the symbol BBRC.
The company was incorporated in Tucson, Arizona in 1956 by founders Page Burr (Princeton 1944[2]