Maxim

Maxim Integrated is a publicly traded U.S. company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and develops integrated circuits (ICs) for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer and computing markets. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with design centers, manufacturing facilities and sales offices around the world. In fiscal 2019, it had sales of $2.31 billion and had 7,131 employees and 35,000 customers worldwide. Maxim is a Fortune 1000 company and its stock is a component of the NASDAQ-100 stock market index. In December 2018, Maxim rejoined the S&P 500 Index.

development path

Maxim was founded in April 1983. The initial nine team members have various experiences in semiconductor design and sales. The founding team includes Jack Gifford, an industry pioneer since the 1960s;

IC sales and distribution pioneer Fred Beck;

Dave Bingham, 1982 General Electric Scientist of the Year;

Steve Combs, a pioneer in wafer technology and manufacturing;

Lee Evans, also a pioneer in CMOS analog microchip design, was the 1982 General Electric Scientist of the Year.

Dave Fullagar, inventor of the first internally compensated op amp;

Another pioneer in CMOS microchip design, Roger Fuller;

Rich Hood, director of development of the first microprocessor-controlled semiconductor test systems;

Dick Wilenken, who is recognized as the father of critical analog switch and multiplexer technology.

Based on a two-page business plan, they secured $9 million in venture capital to build the company. In the first year, the company developed 24 second-source products. Maxim then designs proprietary products that provide greater differentiation and higher margins.

In 1985, the industry introduced the MAX600, the first proprietary product to win an industry award and begin decades of technological innovation. Maxim achieved its first profitable year in 1987 with the MAX232 product, and has been profitable every year since its launch in 1988. fiscal year 1998

Revenue reached $500 million, with total revenue in fiscal year 2011 exceeding $2.47 billion.

In 2005, Maxim became a Fortune 1000 company.

In 2010, the company shipped its first analog products on 300mm wafers.

Maxim's product portfolio now includes power and battery management ICs, sensors, analog ICs, interface ICs, communications solutions, digital ICs, embedded security and microcontrollers.

During the company's development, Maxim has experienced many mergers and acquisitions:

1990: Acquired the first wafer fabrication (fab) facility in Sunnyvale, California.

1994: Acquisition of Tektronix Semiconductor Division in Beaverton, Oregon, giving Maxim bipolar processes for high-speed wireless RF and fiber optic products.

1997: Adds factory capacity at additional San Jose wafer fab.

2001: Acquired Dallas Semiconductor, gaining expertise in digital and mixed-signal CMOS design, as well as an add-on fab.

2003: Acquisition of Philips' micron CMOS wafer fab in San Antonio, Texas, to increase production capacity and support 0.25 micron processes.

2007: Acquisition of Atmel's 0.18 micron wafer fab in Texas, approximately doubling the plant's production capacity.

2007: Acquisition of Vitesse Semiconductor's storage products division in Colorado, adding Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and chassis management products, increasing Maxim's product portfolio.

2008: Acquired Mobilygen Company in Santa Clara, California, and obtained H.264 video compression technology.

2009: Acquisition of Inoka, headquartered in La Ciotat, France, targeting the financial transaction terminal semiconductor market.

2009: Acquired two product lines from Zilog, Inc. Maxim purchased the Secure Transactions product line, which features the Zatara line, as well as the hardware portion of the Zilog wireless control product line, commonly found in universal remote controls.

2010: Acquired privately held Teridian Semiconductor Corporation for approximately $315 million in cash. Teridian is a fabless semiconductor company based in Irvine, California that provides systems on a chip (SoC) for the smart meter market.

2010: Acquired Trinity Convergence Co., Ltd. headquartered in Cambridge, England, and entered the LCD TV market for Skype video conferencing.

2010: Acquisition of Phyworks, a supplier of optical transceiver chips for the broadband communications market.

2011: Acquired Sensor Dynamics, a semiconductor company that develops proprietary sensors and microelectromechanical systems.

2012: Acquisition of Genasic Design Systems Ltd., a fabless RF chip company that produces chips for LTE applications.

2013: Acquisition of Volterra Semiconductor.

2018: Acquisition of Icron Technologies.

product line

Maxim designs, manufactures and sells highly integrated analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency and digital circuits for use in the industrial, communications, consumer and computing markets.

Maxim's product lines include: 1-Wire and iButton devices; amplifiers and comparators; analog switches and multiplexers; audio/video; automotive; clock generation and distribution; analog-to-digital converters; digital-to-analog converters; digital potentiometers Design; Analog filters; High-frequency ASIC; Hot-swappable and [power switch]]; Interfaces and interconnections; Memory (volatile, non-volatile, multi-function); Microcontrollers; Military/Aerospace; Optoelectronics; Batteries and Power management; power line networking; protection and isolation; real-time clocks; storage products; microprocessor monitors; T/E carrier and packet-switched communications; thermal management; voltage references; wireless, RF and cables.