Acquisitions
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.
2007: Purchased 0.18-micrometre fab from Atmel in Irving, Texas, approximately doubling fab capacity.
2007: Acquired Vitesse Semiconductor’s Storage Products Division 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.
2009: Acquired Innova Card, headquartered in La Ciotat, France, for the financial transaction terminal semiconductor market.
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.
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.
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.
2011: Maxim acquired SensorDynamics, a semiconductor company that develops proprietary sensor and microelectromechanical (MEMS) solutions.
2012: Maxim acquired Genasic Design Systems Ltd., a fabless RF chip company that makes chips for LTE applications.
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