8-K

                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM 8-K

                                 Current Report

                         Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
                     of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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        Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 28, 1999

                                   SAWTEK INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                                     Florida
                          (State or other jurisdiction
                                of incorporation)

                                    000-28276
                              (Commission File No.)

                                   59-1864440
                        (IRS Employer Identification No.)

                             1818 South Highway 441
                              Apopka, Florida 32703
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                                 (407) 886-8860
              (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)






Item 5. Other Events.

        Sawtek Inc. announced its next  generation  management  team,  effective
October 1, 1999, and a two-for-one stock split, effective for shareholders of
record on August 9, 1999.

Item 7. Financial Statements and Exhibits

Exhibit 99.1  Sawtek  Inc.  Press  Release  dated  July 28,  1999:  Sawtek  Inc.
Announces  Its  Next  General Management Team and a Two-For-One Stock Split.







                                    SIGNATURE


                  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934,  the  registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

                                   SAWTEK INC.



                                   By:/s/ Raymond A. Link
                                   Vice President Finance and
                                   Chief Financial Officer

July 28, 1999

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1


                                  NEWS RELEASE
                                                      Contact: Ray Link
                                                      Vice President-Finance
                                                      Tel:  407/886-8860
                                                      Fax:  407/886-7061
                                                      E-mail: rl@sawtek.com
For Immediate Release

                      SAWTEK ANNOUNCES ITS NEXT GENERATION
                                 MANAGEMENT TEAM
                          AND A TWO-FOR-ONE STOCK SPLIT

Orlando,  Florida, July 28, 1999 - Sawtek Inc. (NASDAQ: SAWS) announced its next
generation management team to be effective on October 1, 1999, and a two-for-one
stock split effective for shareholders of record on August 9, 1999.

Management Team:

The Board of Directors of Sawtek has  promoted  Gary Monetti to Chief  Executive
Officer,  Kimon Anemogiannis to President and Chief Operating  Officer,  Raymond
Link to Senior Vice  President and Chief  Financial  Officer and Azhar Waseem to
Vice President-Operations, effective October 1, 1999.

Mr. Monetti will replace Steven Miller,  who co-founded Sawtek over 20 years ago
and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr.
Miller will remain as Chairman of the Board of Sawtek. He, along with Jay Tolar,
another Sawtek co-founder and Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer,
will step down from  day-to-day  activities  effective  with the end of Sawtek's
fiscal  year on  September  30,  1999.  Dr.  Tolar will also  remain a member of
Sawtek's Board of Directors.

Mr. Miller  stated,  "These  promotions  complete a management  development  and
transition  plan  initiated  five years ago and places  Sawtek in the hands of a
well-seasoned  management team. Sawtek is embarking on a major growth initiative
as we plan to offer an expanded line of SAW filter  products and this management
team has the breadth and depth of  experience  necessary  to lead Sawtek in this
new strategic endeavor.  I, along with the other members of the Board, have full
faith and confidence in this highly talented group."

Mr.  Miller  further  noted  that both he and Dr.  Tolar will  become  part-time
consultants to Sawtek and will continue  oversight of the Company  through their
roles as Board  members  and that they both plan to  continue  to be active in a
variety of professional and community activities.

Mr.  Monetti,  40,  joined  Sawtek  in 1982 and was  named  President  and Chief
Operating  Officer in 1997 and was  appointed to the Board of Directors in 1998.
Prior   to   this,    he    served    as   Vice    President-Operations,    Vice
President-Engineering,  Vice  President-Sales  & Marketing,  and other positions
during his 18-year  career at Sawtek.  As the CEO, Mr. Monetti will have overall
responsibility for the Company. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the
University of Illinois and a M.B.A. from Rollins College.

Dr.  Anemogiannis,  38, joined Sawtek in 1995 as Director of Engineering and was
promoted   to   Vice   President-Engineering   in   1998   and   then   to  Vice
President-Operations  in 1998.  Prior to joining Sawtek,  Dr.  Anemogiannis  was
Manager of  Engineering  for the  surface  acoustic  wave (SAW) group at Siemens
Matsushita Components based in Munich, Germany. Dr. Anemogiannis earned his M.S.
and Ph.D.  degrees  in  electrical  engineering  from the  Technical  University
Munich.  As  President  and  COO he  will  be  responsible  for  the  day-to-day
activities at Sawtek,  including leading the Company's new product  initiatives.
He will report to Mr. Monetti.

Mr.  Link,  45,  joined  Sawtek in 1995 as Vice  President  and Chief  Financial
Officer.  Prior to joining Sawtek,  Mr. Link spent a combined 15 years at Harris
Corporation  and  Hubbard  Construction  Company in a variety of  financial  and
accounting positions.  He is a Certified Public Accountant and has a B.S. degree
in  accounting  from the  University  of Buffalo  and a M.B.A.  from the Wharton
School.  Mr. Link will continue to be responsible  for the financial  affairs at
Sawtek and will report to Mr. Monetti.  Mr. Waseem, 45, joined Sawtek in 1995 as
Manager of Wafer  Fabrication and was promoted to Director of Wafer  Fabrication
in 1996 and to Vice  President-Manufacturing  in 1998.  Prior to joining Sawtek,
Mr. Waseem managed the international operations of Siliconix Inc. based in Santa
Clara, California.  He has over 20 years of high-tech manufacturing  experience.
Mr. Waseem earned a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and a M.B.A.
from the  University  of Minnesota.  In this new position,  he will have overall
responsibility  for  manufacturing and operations at the Apopka plant and at the
Company's production plant in Costa Rica. He will report to Dr. Anemogiannis.

Other members of the management  team are Brian Balut,  who was promoted to Vice
President-Sales  and  Marketing in  September  1998,  and Jack  Bitzer,  who was
promoted to Vice President-Operations Support in April 1998.

Stock Split:

Steve Miller,  Chairman and Chief Executive  Officer,  stated,  "I am pleased to
announce  that the Board of  Directors  has declared a  two-for-one  stock split
effected as a 100% stock dividend. Shareholders of record on August 9, 1999 will
be issued one  additional  share of Common  Stock for each share of Common Stock
held on the record date.  Upon  completion  of the split,  the Company will have
approximately 42.1 million shares outstanding."

About Sawtek:

Sawtek Inc. is a leading  supplier of electronic  signal  processing  components
based on surface acoustic wave ("SAW")  technology.  The Company's primary focus
is custom designed,  high-performance bandpass filters, resonators, delay lines,
oscillators and SAW-based subsystems. These products are used in a wide array of
microwave  and  radio  frequency  systems  such as CDMA  and  GSM-based  digital
telephone systems, digital microwave radios, wireless local area networks, cable
television,  defense and  satellite  systems,  and  chemical  sensors.  For more
information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.sawtek.com.

Forward-looking  statements in this release are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor
provisions  of the Private  Securities  Litigation  Act of 1995.  Investors  are
cautioned that  forward-looking  statements  such as the statements  made by Mr.
Miller of the Company's plans,  objectives,  expectations and intentions involve
risks and uncertainties.  The cautionary  statements made in this release should
be read as being applicable to the statements made by Mr. Miller.  The Company's
actual results could differ materially from those discussed.  Factors that could
cause or contribute to such  differences  include the  following:  the Company's
dependence on continuing  demand for wireless  communications  services and CDMA
technology, particularly CDMA handset units; economic turmoil in South Korea and
other  Asia-Pacific  countries  (as  experienced  during the past year) or other
geographic  areas  of  the  world  and  risks   associated  with   international
operations;  limited  sources of supply for basic raw  materials  and  potential
near-term  shortages of supply;  fluctuations in the value of foreign  currency;
pressure  on revenue and gross  profit  margins  due to  competition,  change in
product  mix and  other  factors;  lower  average  selling  prices  of  Sawtek's
products;  dependence on a limited  number of  customers,  which are expected to
continue to account for a high  percentage  of the  Company's  future net sales;
fluctuations in the Company's  quarterly results and backlog which may be caused
by such  factors as product mix  changes,  price  competition,  availability  of
manufacturing capacity which could limit the Company's ability to respond timely
to customer  requirements and limit its ability to grow revenue;  customer order
cancellation or rescheduling; the Company's dependence on its timely development
of new or improved SAW products (such as SAW chemical  sensors) to meet changing
market  needs and the risk of  competing  technologies  which  could  replace or
reduce the use of SAW technology for certain applications; risks associated with
Costa Rica operations;  risks associated with failures in information technology
systems that are not Year 2000  compliant,  as well as other risks  discussed in
Sawtek's SEC reports, including Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

A reader of this release should understand that it is not possible to predict or
identify all such risk  factors.  Consequently,  the reader  should not consider
this list to be a complete  statement of all-potential  risks or  uncertainties.
The  Company  does not  assume  the  obligation  to update  any  forward-looking
statement.