Maxim Integrated Products
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maxim Integrated Products Pink Sheets: MXIM, commonly known as "Maxim," is a semiconductor company that designs and manufactures analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. It was founded in 1983 and has headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, United States. In 2001, Maxim acquired Dallas Semiconductor, which it operated under the Dallas Semiconductor brand until 2007, when the brand was retired and the company applied the Maxim brand name to all products.
As of October 1, 2007 Maxim's common stock was delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and is now traded Over-the-Counter and quoted on the Pink Sheets. This occurred due to an inability for the company to file financial statements related to stock option backdating.
[edit] Product range
Maxim specializes in integrated circuits (ICs, "chips") that go between analog signals such as audio, video, and sensor signals and digital signals such as those used by microprocessor-based systems. The company has 75 product lines which include amplifiers, data converters (digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital), interface circuits, power supply chips, wireless, fiber and telecommunications, clock parts, automotive electronic components, audio, video, analog switches, sensor circuits, filters, thermal management, and battery management. Maxim also manufactures its own lines of microcontrollers.
Maxim has over 5400 products. It has about 10,000 employees. Net revenues for the year ended June 30, 2007 were $2.007 billion.
