Maxim IC
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Maxim Integrated Products NASDAQ: MXIM (including its subsidiary Dallas Semiconductor) is a semiconductor company that designs and manufactures analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. It was founded by Jack Gifford in 1983 and is headquarted in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
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Maxim/Dallas 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 manufacturers its own lines of microcontrollers.
Maxim has over 5000 products. It has about 8000 employees (as of June 2005) and net revenues for the year ended June 25, 2005 were $1.672 billion.
Maxim became the victim of two hijackings of parts in Malaysia on 16 April 2005 worth approximately US$ 2.2m and on 17 December 2005 in the Philippines. Only very small quantities of the stolen products have been recovered. The balance may have ended up on the IC gray market. Another cargo theft was reported to have happened on February 3, 2006 also in Cavite.
The founders of Maxim were former employees of GE-Intersil and National Semiconductor. GE-Intersil sued Maxim for infringement. As part of an agreement, GE-Intersil obtained the rights to produce several Maxim products. The company's initial public offering occurred in 1988 and currently trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol MXIM.
