The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has design centers, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices worldwide.

[4] In 1994, the company acquired the integrated circuits division of Tektronix, based in Beaverton, Oregon, giving it high-speed bipolar processes for wireless RF and fiber-optic products.

[7] In October 2003, the company acquired a submicrometre CMOS fab from Philips in San Antonio, Texas for $40 million to ramp up capacity and support processes down to the 0.25-micrometre level.

Maxim's stock was traded over-the-counter and quoted via Pink Sheets LLC until the company completed its restatement in 2008.

[16] In 2009, the company acquired Innova Card, headquartered in La Ciotat, France, to enrich its position in the financial transaction terminal semiconductor market.

Teridian was a fabless semiconductor company based in Irvine, California, supplying System-on-a-chip (SoC) for the smart meter market.

[20][21] It also acquired Trinity Convergence Limited, a software company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, a part of the ecosystem to bring Skype video conferencing to the LCD TV market.