Jack Gifford, Maxim founder, AMD co-founder, dies.

The article offers information on the professional career of Jack Gifford, founder of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. in the U.S. He attended University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) on a baseball scholarship and worked at Fairchild Corp. He partners with his former Fairchild colleague Jerry Sanders to establish AMD where he served as chief finance officer. Gifford founded Maxim and acted as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) until his retirement in 2007.