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To: Jenna who wrote (103525)	6/21/2000 5:00:00 PM
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TXN on the warpath..........TI to buy Burr-Brown for $7.6 billion By Ted Griffith, CBS MarketWatch.com Last Update: 4:36 PM ET Jun 21, 2000 NewsWatch Latest headlines DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Texas Instruments said after the close of trading Wednesday that it will acquire Burr-Brown Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about $7.6 billion. Texas Instruments (TXN: news, msgs) said the acquisition strengthens its position in the data converter and amplifier segments of the analog semiconductor market. Burr-Brown (BBRC: news, msgs) designs data converters. ?This combination means that TI will have a leading position in essentially every high-performance analog category and the ability to offer almost any analog component that touches a DSP," Texas Instruments Chief Executive Tom Engibous said in a statement. The acquisition, which Texas Instruments expects to complete by the end of the third quarter, will boost the company's share of the market for analog semiconductors, chips that provide functions in cell phones such as carrying the signal from the antennae to the processor.