I have recently had an excellent and informative 40-minute interview with Maxim Integrated CEO and President, Tunç Doluca via Webex regarding their 30th anniversary with questions about their history and also their future vision.
In the video below, Doluca speaks about one of Maxim’s innovative and integrated achievements, the development of the MAX232, a single 5V-powered RS-232 line driver and receiver, quite possibly the “founding father” of analog system-level integration according to Len Sherman, senior scientist at Maxim.
Then he discusses the MAX782 designed by Tunç Doluca and his team– circa 1991. This was the original idea for making a chipset because notebook computers were coming into market at the time. This chipset solved power issues for engineers and had a battery charger as another great integrated analog solution.
Doluca always knew that integrated analog was the ultimate goal of the company to help designers.
Watch an excerpt of the interview below and learn more about Maxim’s history here.
For more detail: The history of Maxim Integrated