Maxim: A committed technology partner

Maxim has introduced more than 5,000 products to date. Few, if any, other companies innovate at the rate that Maxim does. Our analog and mixed-signal IC products are constantly redefining what is possible, and enable nextgeneration advancements in numerous products and technologies over a broad array of end-equipment applications. Our success is largely due to our ability to continually define and invent products that add value to our customers' designs. We remain committed to developing cutting-edge products that take advantage of our world-class engineering talent and our large library of unique and proprietary process technologies.

Maxim engineers do not wait passively for customers to request new products. To stay at the forefront of the industry's new developments, we are constantly engaged in close, forward-looking collaboration with our customers. We see it as our job not only to enable our customers' proposals, but to expand those ideas by offering possibilities that may not have been considered. Think of Maxim as a technology development partner.

But superior products are not enough. Maxim is focused on mutually profitable, long-term relationships with our customers, and we are committed to doing everything it takes to that end. We are already making several changes in manufacturing and other functional areas that will improve manufacturing cycle time and on-time delivery significantly. We expect these changes to have effect very quickly, and it is our explicit goal to significantly improve on-time delivery during the summer of 2007.

Equally important is the level of customer service that we provide. Maxim offers a wide variety of services to our customers, including new product updates, expert technical guidance from our Field Applications Engineers, complete and ready-to-go application-specific reference designs, and personalized assistance with orders, pricing, and delivery, just to name a few.

You, the engineer, have always been our most important customer. As a fellow engineer, I appreciate how important it is to have confidence in the consistent performance, quality, and availability of the components that you select for your projects. When you use a Maxim product in your design, know that it comes with our commitment to all of these important criteria.