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| Maxim Integrated | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1983; 42 years ago (1983) |
| Defunct | August 2021; 4 years ago (2021-08) |
| Fate | Acquired byAnalog Devices |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Products | Integrated Circuits |
| Revenue |  US$2.632 billion (2021) |
| US$945 million (2021) | |
| US$827 million (2021) | |
| Total assets | US$4.523 billion (2021) |
| Total equity | US$2.415 billion (2021) |
Number of employees | 7,100 (2020) |
| Website | maximintegrated |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., was an American semiconductor company that designed, manufactured, and soldanalog andmixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Maxim's product portfolio included power and battery management ICs, sensors, analog ICs, interface ICs, communications solutions, digital ICs, embedded security, and microcontrollers. The company is headquartered inSan Jose, California, and has design centers, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices worldwide.[1] In 2021, the company was acquired byAnalog Devices.
Maxim was founded in April 1983. The founding team includedJack Gifford, a semiconductor industry pioneer since the 1960s and co-founder ofAdvanced Micro Devices; Fred Beck, an IC sales and distribution pioneer; Dave Bingham, General Electric’s Scientist of the Year in 1982; Steve Combs, a pioneer in wafer technologies and manufacturing; Lee Evans, also a pioneer in CMOS analog microchip design and General Electric’s Scientist of the Year in 1982; Dave Fullagar, inventor of the first internally compensatedoperational amplifier circuit; Roger Fuller, a pioneer in CMOS microchip design; Rich Hood, development director for some of the first microprocessor-controlled semiconductor test systems; and Dick Wilenken, who is acknowledged as the father of key analog switch and multiplexer technologies.
Based on a two-page business plan, they obtained US$9 million inventure capital financing to establish the company.[2]
In its first year, the company developed 24second source products.
In 1985, the company introduced the MAX600.
Maxim recorded its first profitable fiscal year in 1987, with the help of theMAX232.
In 1988, the company became apublic company via aninitial public offering.[3]
In 1989, the company purchased its first wafer fabrication facility, inSunnyvale, California, from bankrupt Saratoga Semiconductor for only $5-million.[4]
In 1994, the company acquired the integrated circuits division ofTektronix, based inBeaverton, Oregon, giving it high-speed bipolar processes for wireless RF and fiber-optic products.[5]
In 1997, the company acquired a wafer fab inSan Jose, California from IC Works for $42 million.[6]
In April 2001, the company acquiredDallas Semiconductor inDallas,Texas in a stock transaction, to gain expertise in digital and mixed-signalCMOS design, as well as an additional wafer fab.[7]
In October 2003, the company acquired a submicrometre CMOS fab fromPhilips inSan Antonio,Texas for $40 million to ramp up capacity and support processes down to the 0.25-micrometre level.[8][9]
In May 2007, the company acquired an 0.18-micrometre fab fromAtmel inIrving, Texas, for $38 million, approximately doubling fab capacity.[10] In August 2007, it acquiredVitesse Semiconductor’s Storage Products Division inColorado Springs, Colorado, addingSerial ATA (SATA),Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and enclosure-management products to Maxim’s product portfolio.[11]
From October 2007 to October 2008, Maxim's common stock was delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange due to the company's inability to file financial statements related to stock option backdating. Maxim's stock was tradedover-the-counter and quoted viaPink Sheets LLC until the company completed its restatement in 2008.[12][13] Maxim's CFO Carl Jasper resigned due to an investigation into the issue by Maxim's board of directors.[14] Maxim restated its earnings in September 2008 and was relisted on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on October 8, 2008.[15]
In 2008, the company acquired Mobilygen based inSanta Clara, California, to addH.264 video-compression technology to its portfolio.[16]
In 2009, the company acquired Innova Card, headquartered inLa Ciotat,France, to enrich its position in the financial transaction terminal semiconductor market.[17] It also acquired two product lines fromZilog: the Secure Transactions product line, featuring the Zatara family and the hardware portion of Zilog's Wireless Control product line, commonly found in universal remote controls.[18][19]
In 2010, the company acquiredTeridian Semiconductor fromGolden Gate Capital for $315 million. Teridian was a fabless semiconductor company based inIrvine, California, supplyingSystem-on-a-chip (SoC) for thesmart meter market.[20][21] It also acquired Trinity Convergence Limited, a software company based inCambridge,United Kingdom, a part of the ecosystem to bringSkypevideo conferencing to theLCD TV market. It also acquired Phyworks, a supplier of optical transceiver chips for thebroadband communications market, for $72.5 million.[22][23]
In November 2010, the company shipped its first analog product on a 300mm wafer.[24]
In July 2011, the company acquiredSensorDynamics, a semiconductor company that develops proprietary sensor andmicroelectromechanical systems.[25] Also in 2011, it acquired Cambridge Analog Technologies, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, that focused on licensing analog designs including low power ADCs and other analog blocks.
In 2012, the company acquired Genasic Design Systems, a fabless RF chip company that makes chips for LTE applications.[26]
In October 2013, the company acquiredVolterra Semiconductor, a manufacturer of power management equipment.[27]
In February 2018, the company acquired Icron Technologies, a manufacturer of USB and video extension products.[28]
In June 2020, the company acquired Trinamic, a producer of motion control products.[29]
On August 26, 2021, the company was acquired byAnalog Devices.[30]
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