Dallas Semiconductor

Dallas Semiconductor
IndustrySemiconductors, Electronics
Founded1984, February
FounderVin Prothro (CEO)
Defunct2001
FateAcquired by Maxim Integrated
Headquarters,
United States
ProductsIntegrated Circuits
ParentMaxim Integrated
Websitedalsemi.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-10-18)

Dallas Semiconductor, founded in 1984, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002, then acquired by Analog Devices in 2021, was a company that designed and manufactured analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductors (integrated circuits, or ICs). Its specialties included communications products (including T/E and Ethernet products), microcontrollers, battery management, thermal sensing and thermal management, non-volatile random-access memory, microprocessor supervisors, delay lines, silicon oscillators, digital potentiometers, real-time clocks, temperature-compensated crystal oscillators (TCXOs), iButton, and 1-Wire products.