nasdaq mxim industry semiconductors founded 1983 headquarters san jose california united states products integrated circuits revenue us 2.31 billion fiscal 2015 1 net income us 206 million fiscal 2015 1 total assets us 4.228 billion fiscal 2015 1 total equity us 2.290 billion fiscal 2015 1 number of employees 7213 june 2016 website www.maximintegrated.com maxim integrated is an american publicly traded company that designs manufactures and sells analog and mixed signal integrated circuits . 2 maxim integrated develops integrated circuits ics for the automotive industrial communications consumer and computing markets . headquartered in san jose california the company has design centers manufacturing facilities and sales offices throughout the world . in the fiscal year 2015 it had us 2.31 billion in sales 8 800 employees and 35 000 customers worldwide . 3 maxim is a fortune 1000 company listed on the nasdaq 100 russell 1000 and msci us indices . contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 products 4 temporary delisting 5 references 6 external links history edit maxim was founded in april 1983 . 4 its nine initial team members had a variety of experience in semiconductors design and sales . the founding team included jack gifford an industry pioneer since the 1960s ; 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 compensated operational amplifier circuit ; roger fuller yet another 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 . 5 based on a two page business plan they obtained us 9 million in venture capital to establish the company . 6 in the first year the company developed 24 second source products . after that maxim designed proprietary products that offered greater differentiation and higher profits . 5 logo prior to september 2012 maxim recorded its first profitable fiscal year in 1987 with the help of a new successful product called max232 and posted a profit every year since it went public in 1988 . annual revenue reached us 500 million in fiscal year 1998 and in fiscal 2011 totaled over us 2.47 billion . 2 awards http www.maximintegrated.com company newsroom awards archive.mvp acquisitions edit 1990 purchased first wafer fabrication fab facility in sunnyvale california . 1994 acquired tektronix semiconductor division in beaverton oregon giving maxim high speed bipolar processes for wireless rf and fiber optic products . 1997 purchased an additional wafer fab from ic works in san jose california to increase fab capacity . 2001 acquired dallas semiconductor in dallas texas to gain expertise in digital and mixed signal cmos design as well as an additional wafer fab . 2003 purchased submicrometre cmos fab from philips in san antonio texas to ramp up capacity and support processes down to the 0.25 micrometre level . 7 2007 purchased 0.18 micrometre fab from atmel in irving texas approximately doubling fab capacity . 8 2007 acquired vitesse semiconductor s storage products division 9 in colorado springs colorado adding serial ata sata serial attached scsi sas and enclosure management products to maxim s product portfolio . 2008 acquired mobilygen in santa clara california to add h. 264 video compression technology to its portfolio . 10 2009 acquired innova card headquartered in la ciotat france for the financial transaction terminal semiconductor market . 11 2009 acquired two product lines from zilog inc. maxim purchased the secure transactions product line featuring the zatara family of single chip solutions and the hardware portion of zilog s wireless control product line whose crimzon and classic ir solutions are commonly found in universal remote controls . 12 2010 acquired privately held teridian semiconductor corporation for approximately 315 million in cash . teridian was a fabless semiconductor company located in irvine california supplying systems on a chip soc for the smart meter market . 13 2010 maxim acquired the technology and employees of trinity convergence limited a software company based in cambridge u.k. trinity was part of the ecosystem to bring skype video conferencing to the lcd tv market . 2010 maxim acquired phyworks a supplier of optical transceiver chips for the broadband communications market . 14 2011 maxim acquired sensordynamics a semiconductor company that develops proprietary sensor and microelectromechanical mems solutions . 15 2012 maxim acquired genasic design systems ltd. a fabless rf chip company that makes chips for lte applications . 16 2013 maxim acquired volterra semiconductor a company that develops highly integrated solutions for the enterprise cloud computing communications and networking markets . 17 products edit maxim designs manufactures and sells highly integrated analog mixed signal high frequency and digital circuits . its product portfolio includes categories serving automotive industrial medical communications mobile 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 ; analog filters ; high frequency asics ; hot swap and power switching ; interface and interconnect ; memories volatile nonvolatile multifunction ; microcontrollers ; military aerospace ; optoelectronics ; battery and power management ; powerline networking ; protection and isolation ; real time clocks ; reference designs ; storage products ; microprocessor supervisors ; t e carrier and packetized communications ; thermal management ; voltage references ; wireless rf and cable . temporary delisting edit 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 traded over the counter and quoted on the pink sheets until the company completed its restatement in 2008 . maxim s cfo carl jasper resigned due to an investigation into the issue by maxim s board of directors . 18 maxim restated its earnings in september 2008 and was relisted on the nasdaq stock exchange on october 8 2008 . 19 20 references edit a b c d fiscal 2015 financial results release maxim integrated products inc. . maxim integrated products inc. 15 october 2015 . retrieved 15 october 2015 . a b maxim at a glance . maxim integrated web site . retrieved april 27 2011 . 2014 earnings press release maxim integrated products inc . maxim integrated products inc. 24 july 2014 . retrieved 5 august 2013 . steve szirom insidechips . maxim integrated products mxim . retrieved march 20 2012 . a b engineering success maxim integrated products celebrates 25 years of growth and innovation . san jose magazine . july 2 2008 . archived from the original on july 20 2008 . retrieved april 27 2011 . danny wool maxim moving to san jose . jan 27 2011 . retrieved march 20 2012 . maxim acquires submicron wafer fabrication facility in san antonio texas pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 24 october 2003 . maxim announces acquisition of wafer fab facility in irving texas pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 2 may 2007 . vitesse acquisition complete maxim integrated products announces acquisition of digital video leader mobilygen pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 14 october 2008 . maxim integrated products acquires innova card pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 22 january 2009 . maxim announces acquisition of two product lines from zilog inc. pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 19 february 2009 . maxim to acquire teridian pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 12 april 2010 . maxim acquires phyworks pdf . maxim integrated products inc. 8 september 2010 . maxim acquires sensordynamics . maxim integrated products inc. 18 july 2011 . peter clarke ee times . maxim acquires lte chip firm . january 22 2012 . retrieved january 24 2012 . maxim integrated completes acquisition of volterra semiconductor corporation . maxim integrated . 1 october 2013 . maxim cfo resigns amid options probe cfo accessed january 12 2009 . maxim completes restatement of financial statements . bnet the cbs interactive business network . september 2008 . retrieved april 13 2011 . maxim integrated products inc. mxim to conduct nasdaq stock market closing bell remotely from maxim s headquarters in sunnyvale california . nasdaq omx globebewswire . october 7 2008 . retrieved april 13 2011 . external links edit companies portal san francisco bay area portal official company website awards page maximintegrated.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title maxim integrated & oldid 738017737 categories electronics companies of the united statescompanies based in san jose californiasemiconductor companiescompanies established in 1983companies listed on nasdaqtechnology companies based in the san francisco bay area1983 establishments in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinadeutschespa olfran aisitalianonederlands polskiportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 12 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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