The company was founded in 2003 and got its IPO in 2010, today representing 1300+ employees for an annual revenue of almost $700 million.
MaxLinear grew fast with 6 acquisitions and everything seemed to accelerate in 2015 with almost 1 acquisition per year outside of the Covid period. And it appears that the management team has strong ambition as the firm almost absorbed Silicon Motion last year but they finally decide to give up. In fact it seemed that the revenue from the prey dropped significantly that impacted the deal. Per haps other reasons exist but they're outside of our scope.
Among these acquisitions, MaxLinear acquired Exar in May 2017 for approximately $687 million. The technology we're speaking about here came from Hifn acquired itself by Exar in 2009 for $59 million. And we all remember that Hifn absorbed Siafu in 2007, Siafu was a developer of components and appliances for data encryption and compression.
Targeting the data center with demanding workloads, MaxLinear storage product is centered today around the Panther III storage accelerator that delivers advanced data security, reduction, protection and integrity, all running in one single pass.
The performance levels offered by the board are just impressive with 200Gbps throughput linearly scalable with 16 boards to 3.2Tbps. When comparing with competition it appears that the board delivers up to 2.5x better compression ratio and up to 3x better reduction ratio. That associated latency is also super low with 40us for encode and 25us for decode. By reduction here, we mean compression and deduplication.
This data processing CPU offload approach has demonstrated its value in multiple dimensions: throughput, latency, energy and CPU utilization.
The product arrives also with a software suite, and source code, to run all this in software. It helps compare things but also to run data encoding and decoding when the board is not available for any reasons.
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