Dallas Semiconductor Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products, designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of mixed-signal, specialty semiconductors. The company combines proprietary fab and circuit technologies to create innovative products that are sold to over 15,000 customers worldwide. Markets served include broadband telecommunications, wireless handsets, cellular base stations, secure Internet communications, networking, servers, data storage and a wide variety of industrial equipment.
Founded in 1984, the company uses customer problems as an entry point to develop products with widespread applications. The company organizes its products into product groups sharing common technologies, markets or applications focused on three major strategic initiatives: Communications, 1-Wire & Network Computing and Mixed Signal. Dallas Semiconductor is currently also promoting their high-speed 8051 family of microcontrollers.