POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints the Chief Financial Officer, the General Counsel, the Associate General
Counsel and individuals working in the Company's stock administration
department, (it being understood that such individuals currently are Bruce
Kiddoo, Ed Medlin, Mark Casper, Robyn Harris, Michaele Drake and Denise
Ledbetter) signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
to:

1.	execute for an on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as
an officer and/or director of Maxim Integrated Products Inc (the "Company"),
Forms 3, 4, and 5 and any other forms required to be filed in accordance with
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder (a
"Form");

2.	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form (including,
but not limited to, to complete and submit the application to obtain a Form ID),
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
exchange or similar authority; and

3.	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file any Forms pursuant to Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

 executed as of this 9th day of August, 2010.



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Dave Caron