Post-IPO
By May 2010, the company employed 135 people.[1] In May 2015, MaxLinear acquired Entropic Communications. In April 2016, MaxLinear bought Microsemi's wireless backhaul business, adding about 30 workers to its workforce. In May 2016, MaxLinear announced it would buy Broadcom's "wireless backhaul infrastructure for $80 million in cash." In the Broadcom deal, MaxLinear took on about 120 additional employees.[5] 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.[6] The acquisition of Exar Corp for $687 million was completed in May 2017.[7]
It acquired Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division (formerly Lantiq) in 2020. [8]
In 2020 the company acquired NanoSemi for its machine learning techniques to improve signal integrity and power efficiency in communication and artificial intelligence systems.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11] 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".[12]
