State of the Art, Inc. was founded in 1969 as a consulting business specialising in thick-film technology seminars as well as other consulting services. In 1980, they developed the now industry-standard nickel barrier to virtually eliminate solder leaching and inter-metallic formation. In 1987, SOTA became the first MIL-PRF-55342 QPL qualified S-level manufacturer, and today they continue to build a product line that has the lowest failure rate in the world.

State of the Art has been supplying the aerospace, biomedical, defence, and communications industries with high reliability, mission-critical chip resistors for over 40 years. All of their products are designed and manufactured with performance and reliability as the guiding principles.

Their product line includes:

• Military chip resistors and networks
• Surface mount chip resistors
• Thin film on silicon resistors for hybrid applications
• High frequency products, including attenuators, terminations, and chip resistors
• Surface mount resistor networks and custom thick and thin film networks
• High power resistors on beryllia or aluminum nitride
• Special application resistors including high voltage, high value, power moisture, and current sensing