Operator : Greetings, and welcome to the MaxLinear Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Leslie Green, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Leslie Green : Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's conference call to discuss MaxLinear's Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results. Today's call is being hosted by Dr. Kishore Seendripu, CEO; and Steve Litchfield, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Corporate Strategy Officer. After our prepared comments, we will take questions. Our comments today include forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements relating to our guidance for the third quarter of 2026, including revenue, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin, GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses, GAAP and non-GAAP interest and other expense, GAAP and non-GAAP income taxes and GAAP and non-GAAP diluted share count. In addition, we will make forward-looking statements relating to trends, opportunities, execution of our business plan and potential growth and uncertainties in various product and geographic markets, including, without limitation, statements concerning the future financial and operating results, opportunities for revenue and market share across target segments, new products, including the timing of production and launches of such products, demand for and adoption of certain technologies and our total addressable market. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including risks outlined in the Risk Factors section of our recent SEC filings, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, which we filed today. Any forward-looking statements are made as of today, and MaxLinear has no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. The second quarter of 2026 earnings release is available in the Investor Relations section of our website at maxlinear.com. In addition, we report certain historical financial metrics, including, but not limited to, gross margin, income or loss from operations, operating expenses, interest and other expense and income tax on both GAAP and non-GAAP basis. We encourage investors to review the detailed reconciliation of our GAAP and non-GAAP presentations in the press release available on our website. We do not provide a reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance for future periods because of the inherent uncertainty associated with our ability to project certain future changes, including stock-based compensation and its related tax effects as well as potential impairments. Non-GAAP financial measures discussed today are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP financial measures. We are providing this information because management believes it is useful to investors as it reflects how management measures our business. Lastly, this call is also being webcast, and the replay will be available on our website for 2 weeks. And now let me turn the call over to Dr. Kishore Seendripu, CEO of MaxLinear. Kishore?
Kishore Seendripu : Thank you, Leslie, and good afternoon, everyone. Our Q2 financial results highlight the exciting inflection in our business trajectory and the beginning of a multiyear growth phase for MaxLinear. Overall, revenue grew 55% year-on-year, reflecting strong execution, accelerating adoption of our newest data center products, improving visibility and gathering momentum in our infrastructure portfolio. With the improvement in profitability in the quarter, we also returned to positive GAAP EPS of $0.02. In addition, with a favorable product mix shift towards our infrastructure business, we are now forecasting Q3 2026 non-GAAP gross margin to be 60% at the midpoint of our guidance range, as well as a substantial increase in our non-GAAP profitability. Infrastructure is now our largest revenue category and grew 145% year-on-year, driven by robust production ramps in optical data center-oriented platforms. Based on robust customer orders and rising visibility of program ramps, we are once again raising our expectations for 2026 optical data center revenue to be between $210 million to $230 million with continued growth as run rates expand into 2027. Keystone, our 100-gigabit per lane 5-nanometer CMOS PAM4 DSP and SerDes technology continues to ramp into high-volume production at major hyperscale customers across U.S. and Asia for 400-gig and 800-gig deployments, delivering almost 40% lower consumption in power than competition, Keystone's success serves as a foundation for multigenerational customer engagements that extend to the adoption of next-generation 1.6 terabit and 3.2 terabit optical scale-up and scale-out architectures at 200 gigabit and 400 gigabit per lane speeds, respectively. We expect Rushmore, our 1.6 terabit optical PAM4 DSP at 200 gigabit per lane speeds to become an important optical connectivity growth driver beginning in 2027, which will layer on top of Keystone's successful ongoing ramp. Beyond our PAM4 service technology, we have comprehensively expanded our portfolio for optical and electrical scale-up and scale-out connectivity opportunities, including TIAs, drivers and onboard retimers. Together, these products support a broad range of data center architectures consisting of pluggable optics, LRO, LPO, NPO and CPO, providing customers with greater flexibility in their deployment of next-generation AI and cloud infrastructure using MaxLinear solutions. Washington, our stand-alone 200 gigabit per lane TIA platform not only pairs seamlessly with Rushmore, but it can also be deployed stand-alone in LPO and NPO implementations that do not require a DSP. As the performance requirements for TIAs and drivers increase significantly at 200 and 400 gigabit per lane speeds, our deep SerDes expertise enables us to drive compelling performance advantages for such customer solutions. Annapurna, our 200 gigabit per lane Ethernet retimer platform targets 1.6 terabit active electrical cable and onboard retimer requirements for scale-up in AI systems requiring low latency short-reach electrical interconnects within server racks and switches. Annapurna's onboard retimer applications expand our presence into another critical layer of AI infrastructure. For both Annapurna and Washington, we expect initial revenue in 2027, followed by a more meaningful volume ramp in 2028. Outside of optical, our first XGS-PON hyperscaler design win for dedicated data center control train architectures has completed qualification for a 2027 ramp and beyond. Additionally, we have secured design wins for USB bridge controllers at 2 major hyperscalers for AI rack management alongside our broader analog and power management portfolio. These wins broaden our engagement across our data center platform and strengthen our strategic positioning with key customers. Our Panther family of storage accelerators addresses CPU, memory and storage bottlenecks. We expect revenues from Panther to roughly double this year with the potential to nearly double again in '27. Outside the cloud data center, we expect edge AI-driven upgrades to 5G wireless WAN access and transport infrastructure to increase demand for our single-chip Sierra 5G radio SoC and our millimeter and microwave wireless backhaul RF and modem solutions in the mid- to long-term. Moving to broadband and connectivity. Both categories delivered revenue growth in Q2, driven by large-scale deployments of our single-chip fiber PON and Wi-Fi 7 gateway platforms at major Tier 1 service providers in North America and Europe. We're also in the early stages of Ultra DOCSIS 3.1 and 4.0 deployments, which will provide additional stability to growth as ramps progress throughout '27 and '28. In summary, we are pleased with our first half performance and the momentum we have in our data center business. Keystone has established MaxLinear as a proven high-volume, high-quality supplier of 400 gigabit and 800-gigabit PAM4 DSPs and SerDes technology. At the same time, our Rushmore, Washington and Annapurna active electrical cable and retimer platforms extend our reach into 1.6 terabit optical and next-generation AI infrastructure. With multiple revenue drivers layering on over the next 2 years, we believe MaxLinear is exceptionally well positioned for sustained transformative growth and increasing long-term shareholder value. With that, let me now turn the call over to Steven Litchfield, our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Corporate Strategy Officer. Steve?
Steven Litchfield : Thanks, Kishore. Total revenue for the second quarter was $168.8 million, up 23% from $137.2 million in the previous quarter and up 55% from the $108.8 million in the second quarter of 2025. Infrastructure revenue for the second quarter of '26 was approximately $85 million. Broadband revenue grew to approximately $45 million. Connectivity revenue was approximately $24 million, and industrial and multimarket revenue was approximately $15 million. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin for the second quarter were 57.8% and 59.5% of revenue. The delta between GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin in the second quarter was primarily driven by $2.5 million of acquisition-related intangible asset amortization. Second quarter GAAP operating expenses were $101.8 million and non-GAAP operating expenses were $62.8 million. The delta between GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses was primarily due to stock-based compensation and performance-based equity accruals of $36.5 million combined and acquisition-related costs and other costs of $2.2 million. GAAP loss from operations for Q2 was 2%, and non-GAAP income from operations in Q2 was 22% of net revenue. GAAP and non-GAAP interest and other expense during the quarter was $2.4 million and $2.3 million, respectively. GAAP EPS for Q2 2026 was $0.02 per share, marking a return to GAAP profitability. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.35 per share. In Q2, net cash flow provided in operating activities was approximately $4.8 million. We exited Q2 of 2026 with approximately $93.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash. This included a substantial prepayment of wafers supporting rising demand for our data center products for which we have increasing order backlog in the second half of the year and into 2027. Our days sales outstanding in Q2 was approximately 28 days versus 27 days in the previous quarter, and our days of inventory was down in the quarter from 128 days to 123 days. This concludes the discussion of our Q2 financial results. With that, let's turn to the guidance for Q3 of 2026. We currently expect revenue in the third quarter of '26 to be between $210 million and $220 million. Looking at Q3 by end market, we expect to see growth from all 4 of our business segments with particular strength in infrastructure driven by data center optical interconnects. We expect third quarter GAAP gross margin to be approximately 57% to 60% and non-GAAP gross margin to be in the range of 58.5% and 61.5% of revenue. We expect Q3 2026 GAAP operating expenses to be in the range of $98 million to $104 million. We expect Q3 non-GAAP operating expenses to be in the range of $66 million to $71 million. We expect our Q3 GAAP and interest and other expense to be in the range of approximately $3.8 million to $4.2 million. We expect our Q3 non-GAAP and interest and other expense to be in the range of approximately $3.7 million to $4.1 million. We expect a $1.5 million tax provision on a GAAP basis and a non-GAAP tax provision of approximately $1 million. We expect our Q3 GAAP and non-GAAP diluted share count to be approximately 99 million each. In summary, our results this quarter reflect the continued strength of our optical products and the momentum we are seeing across multiple growth vectors within our infrastructure business. Our growth and innovation in this area has been transformational, and we believe we are in the early stages of a multiyear cycle characterized by revenue growth and expanding operating leverage. We're excited about the opportunities ahead and confident in our ability to create long-term shareholder value. With that, we'd like to open up the call for questions. Paul?
Operator : Our first question is from Tore Svanberg with Stifel.
Tore Svanberg : Congratulations on the strong results. Kishore or Steve, you raised the optical transceiver revenue by more than $50 million for this year. Could you talk a little bit about what's driving that? Maybe talk a little bit about the regional nature of that? And also, if you could give us a sense for the mix between 400-gig and 800-gig.
Steven Litchfield : Okay. Kishore, would you like to maybe take that one?
Kishore Seendripu : Yes. Tore, thank you. We are obviously very excited about the growing infrastructure business and especially about our success with our ramps for 400-gig and 800-gigabit optical PAM4 business. So as we entered the year, we were more concentrated in 400 gigabit revenues, but all the revenue growth we are seeing now is driven by 800 gigabit PAM4 success for us, and this will continue in 2027. And as we move later into 2027, our 1.6 terabit Rushmore will start to generate revenue and will drive growth beyond '27 to '28 and '29. So yes, 800 gigabit is now substantially going to be a bigger portion of our run rate revenues moving forward. With regard to our end customers, we do not share our customer -- particular customer names. We have not done that. However, our customers span both U.S. and Asia, hyperscalers and Tier 1 data center customers and OEMs. And at this point in time, we are beginning to see more and more traction and revenue growth that will span both the regions, including the United States.
Tore Svanberg : Very good. And as my follow-up, just thinking about some of the expansion of products that you're now sampling, whether it's Washington and Annapurna, you talked about '27 contribution. But I'm just curious, should the ramp be mainly in '28? Or could you potentially start to see some ramps with TIAs and retailers already in 2027?
Kishore Seendripu : So we -- our Rushmore product line, our Annapurna and even our TIAs for the 1.6 terabit or 200 gigabit per lane speed has been sampling now. It's customer -- it's in the customer qual phases and design-in process. So we expect revenue to start generating in 2027. So we expect the ramps at 1 or 2 opportunities to start somewhere in the second half of the year and then layer on top of that through '28 and '29. So yes, we do have some expectations of 1.6 terabit revenues. And for the TIAs as a companion and for Annapurna active electrical cables in 2027.
Operator : Our next question is from Cody Acree with The Benchmark Company.
Cody Grant Acree : Congrats on the strong results and guidance. Maybe if I just get one point of clarification. The increase in the optical outlook, the $50 million increase, that is all just Keystone. Is that correct? That's not counting any Washington or Annapurna revenue in '26?
Kishore Seendripu : That's correct, Cody. That's very correct. It's all driven by Keystone product family.
Cody Grant Acree : And can you just talk about the visibility you have to that -- the order visibility, the backlog builds that's looking into the second half? Can you just give us some color on the extension of your order trends?
Steven Litchfield : Yes, Cody, I can answer that one. Look, I mean, I think this probably goes without saying, but kind of across most of our businesses right now, I mean, the visibility is very good. I mean, kind of given some of the tight supply and just the continued increase in demand, visibility is good. It's going out on or about 6 months anyway. So naturally, that gives us the confidence to go and raise these numbers.
Cody Grant Acree : And then just lastly, can you talk about wafer prepayments, maybe the amount that you did in Q2 and any expectation for Q3? And I guess, if you could just walk through some of the puts and takes for your gross margin improvement? Things like your mix and your incremental supply constraints and any kind of expedite fees that you may be paying?
Steven Litchfield : Sure. Yes. No problem at all, Cody. Maybe just hit the prepayment real quick. Certainly, with this increased demand and some of the -- making sure that we're securing wafers and products for our customers going out, we've certainly started to prepay in a lot of cases. So that was up a little bit in the quarter. We expect that to continue next quarter as well. But that's all against a product that has backlog out a couple of quarters, right? So comfortable with that. Your question with regard to gross margins. So a little ahead of schedule here. We're excited about hitting the 60% level in our guidance for Q3. As you're probably aware, the mix of our infrastructure products historically has been well above the corporate average. That continues to be the case today. I do see that continuing to expand over the next year or 2 as our infrastructure business grows, as our 800 -- 1.6T products start to contribute further. We've been a little bit cautious. We've shared this with investors that just the input cost, the wafer cost increases, the packaging test increases that we're seeing out there. We're certainly kind of careful as we're seeing this across the board. In some cases, you can pass this along to customers. And -- so we've just been a little bit cautious on this front, but certainly, we see improvements from here.
Kishore Seendripu : Steve, I just want to add, if you look at the revenue ramp we've had throughout 2026 and raised expectations, especially with the advanced nodes in 5-nanometer, Keystone is the only 5-nanometer SoC shipping in volume for the 100 gig per lane speeds. At least we were the first ones. We have gotten our forecast then kept going up. And I must say that our foundry and OSAT partners have been incredibly supportive in making sure that we can meet the surging demand as our quals went through, and we have started layering more and more customer product ramps on our optical products. So yes, supply is tight, but I think having strong relationships and constant communications with our foundry partners and OSATs has been incredibly helpful, and that's goes a long way in meeting our demand.
Operator : Our next question is from Joe Quatrochi with Wells Fargo.
Joseph Quatrochi : Maybe on the optical side the revenue guide up, how should we think about the revenue run rate of that in the second half as we're just thinking about the trajectory into 2027?
Steven Litchfield : Sure, Joe. Look, I mean, we -- as new quals kind of come through, production ramps start, I mean, we started out with a great run rate going into the year. I think that's just continued to improve. Obviously, raising this number here kind of sets expectations for '27 as well. So you would expect that there's not a stair step. I mean we continue to see as more customers' qualifications get completed, move into production volumes, you're seeing those numbers go up, and I would expect that to continue into next year.
Joseph Quatrochi : And then maybe on the broadband side, maybe just any update there in terms of what you're seeing from a demand perspective and just kind of some of the timing for some of these transitions. Has anything changed there?
Steven Litchfield : Yes. Not a whole lot of changes. I mean, as you know, we've been gaining share on some of our PON programs. That's gone exceptionally well this year. I think as we look out the back half of this year and next year, telco CapEx spend continue to be good. Our customers continue to be rolling out in a lot of cases, new programs. If you recall, we've got kind of content increases and a couple of other things. So yes, I would say everything is on track on that front.
Operator : Our next question is from Suji Desilva with ROTH Capital Partners.
Sujeeva De Silva : Kishore, Steve, congratulations on the strong progress here. I know you're growing very strong in optical in '26, but I'm trying to understand '27 a little bit. Just what's the share opportunity -- Kishore as Rushmore upgrades happen from Keystone? Do you guys have an advantage there or perhaps even grow your share? Or should we expect that it holds from the success you have in Keystone?
Kishore Seendripu : So Suji, obviously, the kind of growth we are seeing comes from 2 factors, right? The market itself is growing very, very strongly. And the fact that we have raised our expectation for '26 revenue, which means a higher run rate expectations towards second half of '26, which has implications for '27 as well. It's a matter of as -- and when we learn about the ramps and how strong the ramps are, we're upgrading our revenue expectations. So it's happening in both ways, right? One is through the TAM growth and the other one is through market share growth. So yes, on both fronts, our performance differentiation and increasing traction with successful rollout of our products at various other customers is having a knock-on effect of more -- what I call more acceleration in the ramps that we are seeing. With regards to Rushmore, obviously, Keystone is a foundational product for MaxLinear. This was the first major one that went to mass rollout from MaxLinear's point of view, even though it represents our third generation of technology. But Rushmore at 1.6 terabit is now sampling. It's got performance and power advantages that are very, very substantial. And at the same time, it has also got a supply chain diversification that is very unique with MaxLinear versus our competition. So if you roll in all these factors, we feel very optimistic and actually, frankly, very excited about Rushmore and the upside potential of ASP increases with the enhanced speeds. So I think that the same customers that are using Keystone are eagerly working towards deploying our 1.6 terabit. And obviously, the qual and interop cycle is a bit longer and natural at higher speeds, but we feel we're very well positioned to be successful with 1.6 terabit Rushmore as well as a successor to Keystone offering. The important thing is my own forecast for the industry is both 800 gigabit and 1.6 terabit will be one of the workhorse speed nodes for a long time to come. So even as Rushmore ramps -- Rushmore comes online, Keystone will still be having a lot of growth engine and capacity moving forward.
Sujeeva De Silva : Okay. layer on. And then my other question is on the TIA driver market, the Washington product and so forth. In the 1.6T platforms, are you seeing more kind of creative set of CPO, LPO architectures that drive higher attach rate and make better use of your products as they break out some of the components there?
Kishore Seendripu : I think you have to look at that for the first time, we are actually positioning and marketing Washington as both a stand-alone TIA and paired with Rushmore. Obviously, the first success we'll have is a paired offering with our own SerDes and PAM4 DSP, maybe Rushmore. Having said that, as you go to higher speeds, our deep RF expertise is very, very valuable and differentiated. And it's got a lot of potential to be used as a stand-alone product working with other DSPs and at the same time, being designed into LPOs and LRO type of applications. So at this stage, I would say preliminary, we expect our first traction to come from our own pairing with our own device.
Operator : Our next question is from Quinn Bolton with Needham & Company.
Quinn Bolton : Steve and Kishore, I'll offer my congratulations as well. I wanted to follow up on Suji's question just on Rushmore. As you look at your -- the qualification programs you're engaged in now, is that a sort of expanding set or expanding opportunity? Do you think you are sort of going after more 1.6T modules at your customers than, say, you were originally looking at on 800 gig. I'm just kind of wondering, can you tell from the qualification activity whether you think your share continues to increase with Rushmore?
Kishore Seendripu : So -- wow, very, very good question. And I'm actually very pleased with where we are. From where we started in Keystone today, I can safely say that we are now comprehensively designed across the board of all of the optical module players on the 800 gigabit solution across the board. So in a sense, 1.6 terabit now has to systematically get designed to each of those customers where we have laid the foundation with Keystone and them developing their modules, qualing them and then interroping them. So if anything, Keystone has created the footprint for us to roll out 1.6 terabit. The -- obviously, it's a very multifaceted play in terms of qualing 1.6 terabit Rushmore and it's just being designed in with the module makers, then it leads to the next phase of quals with the data center operators, and that's when the revenue ramps will start. So we expect this to happen towards the second half of next year and with some initial revenue ramp starting in '27.
Quinn Bolton : Got it. And then Kishore, as you look at the broadband sort of the CPE gateway business and you talk to your customers, do those CPE boxes tend to use a fair amount of memory? Is the rising cost of memory causing any sort of delays in rollouts or perhaps lower units? Or do you think that the CPE business is able to absorb the memory cost increases?
Kishore Seendripu : So at this point in time, we do not -- we have not seen on our solution platforms effects of memory as being a major driver in their decisions on using a product. If anything, we have been able to share gains because our solution actually integrates a lot -- there are different implementations, different solutions use -- competition uses a lot more external memory than we do. So we actually save our customers a lot more money due to the integrated solution with on-chip memory and incorporate it. So we have not seen much impact with our customers. Obviously, they're absorbing the cost of the memory, and they're able to pass it on to their operator customers. So there is some juggling going on. But at our own level, we have not seen any, what I call, real tangible impact on the volumes that we were expecting and forecasting for this year and looking into next year. You have to keep in mind that the lead times are pretty long these days. So we get fairly strong visibility based on backlog and bookings.
Operator : Our next question is from Tim Savageaux with Northland Capital Markets.
Timothy Savageaux : Congrats as well, especially on the guide. My first question is kind of about that, which is in terms of what you're seeing here, can you maybe try to be more granular between overall market growth uptick in unit volumes, broadly speaking, being a driver here versus share gain on MaxLinear's part, maybe at the expense of capacity-constrained competitors. But -- and I don't know if there'd be another factor, but I'd love to have you weight those 2 in terms of what you're seeing in the step function here in these couple of quarters. I'll follow up from there.
Kishore Seendripu : So look -- go ahead, Steve. Sorry, go ahead, Steve.
Steven Litchfield : Yes. No, I was just going to say I don't know that we can -- it's hard to break out. I guess from our perspective, I mean, what we're confident, and I think what we are seeing is that we are seeing more market share gains. Certainly, the market is growing nicely. But we're seeing our share go up. I think part of the rationale for seeing our guidance go up is that we've been able to take additional market share. And so we're seeing that in the short term, and we think you'll also see that throughout next year as newer programs start to ramp.
Timothy Savageaux : Got it. And kind of following up on the guidance. I guess, would it be -- I think it's about $45 million -- would it be fair or perhaps conservative to say the majority of that sequential growth is coming from optical in Q3?
Steven Litchfield : Yes. I guess I would just say that the majority of it is coming out of infrastructure. Certainly, I mean, we're seeing growth across that end market, call it, much more so than some of the others. The others are going up, as we guided, but a lot of that growth is coming from infrastructure. And certainly, we upped our optical guide. So that number goes up as well.
Timothy Savageaux : Got it. And when you talk about growth across the rest of the segments, I assume you're referring to sequential growth there, not year-over-year?
Steven Litchfield : I was -- yes, just reflecting the guidance. Yes, that's correct, Tim.
Timothy Savageaux : Great. And last question for me. It looks like no 10% customers here, and I imagine the old broadband guys are kind of falling off the list. But as we move forward and you continue to ramp in optical, do you have the prospect of having one or more of these module guys as a 10% customer in the near future or in the future in general?
Steven Litchfield : Yes. So I think we mentioned this before, Tim. Look, I think we've talked about being in a lot of customers. Kishore just mentioned it again as well. We've got a number of module guys, a number of data centers that we're supplying product into today. But over time, yes, I do think you'll expect to see more concentration. I think that's well understood as we go into next year. I don't think that would be surprising at all.
Operator : Our next question is from Christopher Rolland with Susquehanna.
Christopher Rolland : Congrats on the results, and I apologize if this has been asked as I joined late. But in terms of the composition, customer composition, particularly moving forward for DSP, is there any movement in terms of the balance between hyperscalers versus module makers and then also North America versus like Eastern guys? Or is it still incredibly broad-based?
Steven Litchfield : Yes, you might have just missed this question because it was just before you. But we continue to see growth. I mean, Kishore mentioned in the prepared remarks that we're seeing growth out of both regions. So from a geography standpoint, we're certainly seeing growth on both sides. As far as concentration itself, as mentioned previously, there's not a 10% customer. But I do expect, as we've talked in the past, I think you'll see a little more concentration as we move forward. I mean there's not tons of these customers. So I think it's -- it will be understandable that you'll see some more concentration as we move forward.
Christopher Rolland : Okay. But just to be clear, you don't have one marquee customer pushing. Is that correct?
Steven Litchfield : So we don't have a 10% customer. It's a little broader based, but I mean, you should expect there's a handful of customers that are going to drive the most volumes over the next, call it, 6 quarters.
Christopher Rolland : Okay. Perfect. And then as a follow-up, I think it's been some time since you've given some long-term metrics for the model more broadly. I think at one point in time, we talked about 65% gross margins. Do you have any sort of an update for your longer-term model, including what a path might look like to 65%? Does that still hold for you guys?
Steven Litchfield : Yes. So I don't think the target has changed. We certainly feel like with the product mix, the end markets that we participate in -- that, that's still the right goal, and I think there's a path to certainly get there. Raise the number for our Q3 guide goes up a little bit ahead of schedule. So that's good. I think that reflects just our infrastructure business in general, growing at a faster rate than some of the other end markets, and they do have gross margins that run ahead of the corporate average. Right now, we're seeing lots of increases of cost, right? I mean, whether it be on the wafer side or just test assembly, packaging. So doing our best to pass some of those costs along, but where you're paying premiums in some cases, meeting customer demand. So we're paying a little bit more right now. But I certainly think that there's a strong path to see continued growth out of our gross margins.
Operator : Our next question is from Ananda Baruah with Loop Capital Markets.
Ananda Baruah : Same for me, I apologize if this has been asked. I jumped on late as well. But I guess the DSP question, sort of as you look out the next couple of years, guys, and you think about what the drivers of growth are? Any way to help us think about order of magnitude, bigger -- sort of the growth comes from bigger customer participation, i.e., hyperscalers versus price lift from going to 1.6T and 3.2 versus just broader growth in the marketplace? Any help there would be useful.
Steven Litchfield : Kishore, do you want to take that?
Kishore Seendripu : Yes. Ananda, that's -- I think we answered that question too, as best we could. It's going to take all of those factors to play in our growth expectation plans. It's going to be share growth. There is going to be TAM growth. There is going to be TAM unit growth, and there's going to be ASP growth as we go to higher and higher speeds. At the same time, we are also -- our footprint inside the data center is increasing. We now -- we are also offering a broad comprehensive product portfolio of TIAs, drivers. And at the same time, for active electrical cables, we have our Annapurna offering and also for onboard retimers, right? So as that product portfolio expands and broadens, it can address a number of architectures that include CPOs, NPOs, LPOs, LROs and other implementations, both for optical and electrical scale-up and scale-out implementations. So it's going to take all of those. And the good news is that the offering has become more comprehensive, and we continue to work towards that to expand that family, if you will, of the larger footprint. And we feel we are really making excellent progress getting these into the pipeline. And then eventually, they will result in multiyear revenue growth and expansion for MaxLinear.
Ananda Baruah : Yes. That's really helpful, Kishore. I guess a quick follow-up is -- and maybe this also was talked to earlier on the call, so I apologize if it was. But anything notable either on the technical side of things or on the relationship side of things of note that sort of is helping you move the ball forward over the last 90 days that we should be aware of. That would be useful context for us to be aware of. And that's it for me. On the DSP business.
Kishore Seendripu : Look, every day matters, right? We are really building on the successful penetration ramp that is happening on Keystone. And that itself is a self-reinforcing driver and force actually. So if you really look at the larger picture in the larger landscape today with the track record of the millions of units of shipments and optical transceiver, PAM4 DSPs, there are only 3 players right now, and we are one of them. So I think that track record is really, really important. And I think -- and then having the next-generation offering with Rushmore and expanding the product portfolio, all of this play a role into how things move around, how we build relationships. You also have to keep in mind that we are now not just talking about electrical and PAM4 optical offerings with TIAs and drivers, active electrical cables and onboard retimers. We also have storage accelerators now in our portfolio that will get more and more important as this agentic AI becomes very important and the storage bottlenecks that prevents increasing the number of agents, right? That's very important how we expand that. Hardware acceleration and compression is going to be very, very important to expand the agents and at the same time, reduce the time to first token, which all involves lower latency and improving power consumption. So I think we are also showing other parts to the portfolio, increasing our XGS-PON for control plane for the data centers. It's going to take a lot of stuff to put together to continue to expand our relationship with the end customers. If you look at our 2 big competitors, right, they're very large companies, and they have a lot to offer to our end customers as well. So it's going to take working away, chipping away with more offerings that we could be a full-blown comprehensive player in the data center infrastructure.
Operator : Our next question is from Karl Ackerman with BNP Paribas.
Karl Ackerman : Two, if I may. I'm going to pivot a bit from the questions with respect to optical, which is well covered and you've certainly done very well this quarter on that. Could you discuss some of the key drivers for your industrial and multimarket business into the second half of next year? I know you mentioned it was going to grow sequentially into September. But I ask because while this area has improved, you're still halfway from the run rate business you achieved in 2023, and that appears to be margin accretive for you. And so if we could just talk about the drivers of that, that could also drive revenue into -- the second half into '27 would be very helpful.
Steven Litchfield : Yes. Sure, Karl. I can take that. The industrial business has definitely been recovering. Last year was very weak. We've started to see -- you're seeing nice year-over-year improvements this year. I think I would expect that to continue next year. I mean you're starting to hear more of the industry itself starting to recover. So that's good. And I think we've talked about this a little bit before. Some of this has driven some of the China business. We're actually seeing good pricing improvements in that region. So I would expect pricing as well as new products to contribute to that growth.
Karl Ackerman : Got it. If I may have a follow-up. Within broadband, could you discuss the mix of revenue on fiber today? And whether you see that crossing over from cable broadband? Is that something that can occur in 2027? Can you just talk about the growth between fiber and cable within that would be helpful.
Steven Litchfield : Yes. Good question, Karl. Yes, you're right. We've been talking about this. I mean this is an area that is still relatively new. We're a relatively new player, but we've now won the top 2 guys in North America. So the second guy is ramping this year on track as we had talked about. So it's definitely growing nicely, the PON business specifically. And as we -- I would expect that to continue next year. It's hard to say when the crossover will be. I mean I would guess '27, but it may push out into '28, frankly, because some of the upgrades that are happening in the DOCSIS world are also growing. So we're seeing decent growth on both sides, and it's good to see the telcos kind of with some spending there.
Operator : Our next question is from Tore Svanberg with Stifel.
Tore Svanberg : I just had a follow-up, and I'll ask a question that has not been asked. So looking at the filing, it looks like your purchase obligations went up about $40 million. But then you also have another obligations item that I think went up even more than that, $45 million. Can you just explain a little bit the difference between those 2? I mean you talked about, obviously, the wafer prepays and so on and so forth. I'm sure there's stuff you can do on the back end as well. But yes, any more color on the difference in those 2 because obviously, it's a pretty important increase in both items.
Steven Litchfield : Yes, yes. I mean, so obviously, the purchase obligations are probably the bigger takeaway. We did have some prepayments. I mean, with the stock price increase that we saw in the quarter, there were some -- a handful of payroll accruals that had to be done as well. And so that's a portion of it was around stock comp. But again, the majority is the prepayments. And as we've kind of talked about a little bit earlier, that portion obviously supporting growth in Q4 and into Q1, as those lead times like we're starting to place orders now for Q1. And that's the majority of those numbers and those commitments.
Tore Svanberg : Got it. And then last question. So there was a little bit of discussion about the long-term model. I mean you're going to be at 30% operating margin this quarter or at least close to it. I know you've been here before. But how should we think about that sort of number now sort of being more of the baseline going forward, especially in relation to your OpEx guidance?
Steven Litchfield : Yes. I mean, look, I don't want to guide beyond the quarter that we're in, but I think you -- well, you know our long-term goal is to be between 30% and 35% operating margins. You're absolutely right, kind of headed in that direction. You can kind of see the model starting to move there pretty quickly. I mean profitability is good. We're seeing good growth next year on the top line. Gross margins are favorable from an OpEx standpoint. Yes, we'll see some increases in OpEx, definitely supporting the growth in these areas. But as we've talked about the operating leverage, I think, is compelling. It's exciting to kind of see. You're right, we've been here before, but we want to continue to show this kind of long-term sustainability of these profit margins.
Operator : There are no further questions at this time. I'd like to hand the floor back over to Leslie Green for any closing remarks.
Leslie Green : Thank you, Paul, and thank you for joining us on today's conference call. This quarter, we will be presenting at a number of financial conferences and virtual events. The details will be posted on the Investor Relations page of our website, and we look forward to speaking with you again soon. Thank you.
Operator : This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you again for your participation.
