MaxLinear

Founding and growth MaxLinear was founded in 2003 Kishore Seendripu was co-founder, and would become chairman, president, and chief executive. Among other companies, in the past Seendripu had worked on the technical staff at Broadcom. on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) On February 8, 2017, MaxLinear announced the acquisition of Marvell Technology Group's G.hn business, for $21.0 million in cash. On March 29, 2017, MaxLinear Inc. announced it would buy Exar Corporation for about $661.6 million cash. The acquisition of Exar Corp for $687 million was completed in May 2017. It acquired Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division (formerly Lantiq) in 2020. In 2020 the company acquired NanoSemi for its machine learning techniques to improve signal integrity and power efficiency in communication and artificial intelligence systems. As of 2022, MaxLinear is on the Multimedia over Coax Alliance board of directors as well as Arris, Broadcom, Comcast, Cox Communications, DirecTV, Echostar, Intel, and Verizon. In May 2022, MaxLinear agreed to buy Silicon Motion, an American-Taiwanese company that develops NAND flash controllers, for $3.8 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. In July 2023, it scrapped the acquisition citing that Silicon Motion had failed to complete some of the acquisition closing conditions and suffered a "material adverse effect". ==Locations==

MaxLinear is based in Carlsbad, California, A "fabless" company, it uses outside chipmaking facilities, known as foundries or fabs, to manufacture its chips. By 2010, it used "third-party contractors in Asia for manufacturing and assembly," with all its chips made by United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) at foundries in Taiwan and Singapore. ==Products ==

MaxLinear sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), module makers and original design manufacturers (ODMs). The San Diego Union-Tribune writes that "MaxLinear’s product is very small radio-frequency TV tuner chips — half the size of an individual dial button on the keypad of a cell phone." They are also used in televisions, mobile phones, computers, terrestrial digital and cable set-top boxes, car video systems, DOCSIS 3.0 voice and data cable modems, digital televisions, and netbooks. The company designs its analog and mixed-signal circuits in standard CMOS process technology for low-cost manufacturing. Collaborations In April 2013, SES S.A. announced the development by Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear Inc of a prototype Sat-IP LNB (IP-LNB), which was demonstrated at a conference held at SES' headquarters in Luxembourg. The IP-LNB incorporates eight-channel satellite-to-IP bridging technology to deliver eight concurrent channels via IP unicast or multicast to fixed and portable client devices. As of July 2012, the prototype IP-LNB was being developed into a commercial product.{{cite press release |publisher=SES |date=April 22, 2013 |url=http://www.ses.com/4233325/news/2013/15044211|title=SES, Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear revolutionise satellite TV home distribution with industry's first IP-LNB ==See also==