8-K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report:  August 25, 2005
(Date of Earliest Event Reported)

MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

DELAWARE	0-16538	94-2896096
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
120 SAN GABRIEL DRIVE SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA		94086
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

(408) 737-7600
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

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Item 5.02      Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

(d)     On August 22, 2005, the Board of Directors of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Peter de Roetth to serve as a director of the Company.  There have been no transactions or series of similar transactions of the type required to be described under Section 404(a) of Regulation S-K between the Company and Mr. de Roetth which have taken place since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year and currently there are not any such proposed transactions or series of similar transactions.

Item 5.03      Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Changes in Fiscal Year. 

(a)     Immediately prior to and in connection with the election of Mr. de Roetth to the Board of Directors on August 22, 2005, the Board of Directors amended the first sentence of Article IV, Section 15 of the Bylaws of the Company to increase the authorized number of directors from six (6) to seven (7).

Item 9.01      Financial Statements and Exhibits. 

(c)     Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Exhibit
3.4(b)	Certificate of Amendment to the Bylaws of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., effective August 22, 2005

SIGNATURES

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

	MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Carl W. Jasper
		Carl W. Jasper
		Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Date:  August 25, 2005

EX-3.4(B)

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

TO THE BYLAWS OF

MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC.

          I, Carl W. Jasper, Secretary of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby certify that Article IV, Section 15 of the Bylaws of the Company was amended by resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors at a meeting held August 22, 2005, via conference telephone, pursuant to notice duly given to all members of the Company’s Board of Directors, to read in its entirety as follows:

“Article IV

Directors

Section 15     Number and Term of Office.

The number of Directors that shall constitute the whole of the Board of Directors shall be seven (7).  The number of authorized Directors may be modified from time to time by amendment of this Bylaw in accordance with the provisions of Section 43 hereof. Except as provided in Section 17, the Directors shall be elected by the stockholders at their annual meeting in each year and shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified, or until their death, resignation or removal. Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the Certificate of Incorporation. If for any cause, the Directors shall not have been elected at an annual meeting, they may be elected as soon thereafter as convenient at a special meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose in the manner provided in these Bylaws.”

Executed effective as of August 22, 2005.
	/s/ Carl W. Jasper
	Carl W. Jasper
	Secretary