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{{Short description|Semiconductor company}}
{{Infobox company
| name                 = Burr-Brown Corporation
| logo                 = Burr-Brown logo.svg
| type                 = Public
| industry             = [[Semiconductor industry|Semiconductor]]
| location             = 6730 South Tucson Boulevard, #BC-7<br/>Tucson, Arizona 85706<br/>U.S.
| defunct              = {{end date and age|2000}}
| fate                 = Acquired by [[Texas Instruments]]
}}
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 circuit]]s (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.<ref name="Eller2002_12">{{cite web|title=Tom Brown: A Serendipitous Life |url=http://www.eller.arizona.edu/eller_times/december2002/Tom_Brown.html |date=December 2002|accessdate=2008-06-07 |publisher=Eller Times of the [[Eller College of Management]] ([[University of Arizona]]) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026124512/http://www.eller.arizona.edu/eller_times/december2002/Tom_Brown.html |archivedate=October 26, 2008 }}</ref>
== History ==
[[File:Kramer Electronics SID-X1N - board - Burr-Brown PCM1803A-5551.jpg|thumb|Burr-Browns PCM1803A, a 24-Bit, 96-kHz Stereo [[Analog-to-digital converter|A/D Converter]]]]
In 1983, the company reincorporated in [[Delaware]] and went [[public company|public]] with [[stock trading]] on [[NASDAQ]] under the symbol BBRC.
The company was [[Incorporation (business)|incorporated]] in [[Tucson, Arizona]] in 1956 by founders Page Burr (Princeton 1944<ref>[https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/r-page-burr-44 R. Page Burr '44 Obit] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407065603/http://paw.princeton.edu/memorials/42/64/index.xml |date=April 7, 2014 }}</ref>) and  Thomas R. Brown Jr. (BS [[MIT]] 1949, MBA [[Harvard]] 1952) to commercialize [[semiconductor]] [[transistors]]; in 1959, the company posted its first profit.<ref name="Eller2002_12"/> Brown eventually bought out Burr's share of the company.<ref name="Eller2002_12"/>
The company employed over 1,300 people worldwide with manufacturing and technical facilities located in [[Tucson, Arizona]]; [[Atsugi, Japan]]; and [[Livingston, Scotland]]. Company headquarters was located in Tucson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macraesbluebook.co.uk/company/company.cfm?company=72044_Burr-Brown_Europe_Ltd_Livingston_West_Lothian|title=Burr-Brown Europe Ltd, Livingston, West Lothian on MacRAE's Blue Book UK Industrial Directory|access-date=2018-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723152221/https://www.macraesbluebook.co.uk/company/company.cfm?company=72044_Burr-Brown_Europe_Ltd_Livingston_West_Lothian|archive-date=2018-07-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Burr-Brown was one of the principal suppliers of precision analog and data acquisition products to the electronic industry. The company pioneered many analog semiconductor products and techniques, such as active laser-trimming.
Texas Instruments Inc. completed its $6.1 billion acquisition of electronic-components maker Burr-Brown Corp on June 21, 2000.
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== External links ==
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* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000520001953/http://www.burr-brown.com/ |date=May 20, 2000 |title=Archive of Burr-Brown website}}
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[[Category:Defunct semiconductor companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Companies based in Tucson, Arizona]]
[[Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States]]
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[[Category:Texas Instruments]]