MAXIM is the abbreviation of Maxim Integrated Products, the world's best analog signal and mixed-signal semiconductor company. Founded in 1983, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

With more than 9,300 employees, the company is one of the world's leaders in the design, development and production of analog and mixed-signal integration products. Maxim's circuitry "connects" the real world to the digital world by detecting, amplifying, and converting various real-world signals such as temperature, pressure, and sound into digital signals needed for computer processing.

At the heart of any electronic product is a digital core that is associated with humans, the real physical world, power supplies, and other digital systems. Maxim is a global leader in the design, development, and manufacture of analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency, and digital circuits that provide the ability to connect these digital cores to peripheral systems. They have approximately 35,000 large customers worldwide.

Their semiconductor products are the bridge between the digital processor and the physical world.