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MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. supplies chips, amplifiers and radio-frequency and optical components that customers build into larger electronic systems. Industrial and defense applications, including radar and communications, form its largest market; data centers and telecom networks provide the rest of its revenue. Equipment makers and contract manufacturers buy its standard and custom products, both directly and through resellers and distributors.
Sales often start with a customer choosing a MACOM component for a system design, followed by qualification before volume purchases begin. Customers generally buy through purchase orders rather than long-term minimum-purchase commitments, so revenue depends on those designs reaching production and customers continuing to order. Two resellers each account for a substantial share of revenue, although no individual direct customer contributes a similarly large share.
MACOM combines its own wafer fabrication, assembly and testing with outside manufacturing providers. Some materials and fabrication processes depend on a single supplier, making access to those sources important to deliveries. Some products require U.S. export licenses, while others face military-related export restrictions that limit which countries and customers MACOM can supply.
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MACOM’s results hinge on defense RF programs and faster optical-network deployments, with Qorvo a key RF rival to watch outside this list.
Analog Devices challenges MACOM for chip designs in industrial and communications equipment; both sell high-performance analog components that customers build into larger systems. Watch Analog Devices’ product performance and reliability, the strengths it uses to win those designs.
Marvell and MACOM both sell chips that move data quickly between systems to data-center and communications equipment makers, putting them in competition for the same upgrades. Marvell’s high-speed interconnect business is the relevant read-through for MACOM, rather than all of its data-center sales.
Semtech Corp’s Signal Integrity business competes with MACOM to supply equipment makers with chips for optical data links, fiber-access networks and wireless infrastructure. Its Signal Integrity sales offer a closer view of those markets than its IoT modules and connectivity services do.
MaxLinear competes with MACOM for equipment makers’ spending on RF and mixed-signal chips used in infrastructure radios, broadband equipment and data-center optical links. Watch its chips for base-station radios and optical transceivers, where its ability to combine more functions on one chip shapes the competing offer.
Credo competes with MACOM in chips supporting high-speed optical links in data centers, exposing both to spending on faster connections. Watch Credo’s chips that process signals in optical links, rather than treating its electrical cables and other connectivity products as the same market.
Coherent and MACOM share demand from faster optical links: Coherent sells optical devices and transceivers for data-center and communications applications, while MACOM sells supporting semiconductor components. Coherent’s Datacenter & Communications business is the part to watch for the pace of those deployments.
Lumentum Holdings and MACOM both depend on high-speed optical-network deployments, selling different parts of the build: Lumentum sells lasers, optical chips and modules, while MACOM supplies supporting semiconductors. Watch Lumentum’s optical components that customers integrate into larger network solutions.
TTM Technologies competes with MACOM for RF component orders from aerospace, defense and wireless-infrastructure customers. Its RF & Specialty Components business is the relevant comparison, not its broader printed-circuit-board manufacturing operations.
Broadcom competes with MACOM to supply chips for data-center connections and telecommunications equipment, so both face the same infrastructure spending decisions. Watch Broadcom’s networking-connectivity and broadband semiconductor businesses, rather than its infrastructure software.
Ciena and MACOM share exposure to optical-network capacity upgrades: Ciena sells network operators complete optical networking systems, while MACOM sells analog and coherent components for high-speed transmission. Watch deployments of Ciena’s WaveLogic-based optical systems for a view of that shared demand.
Fabrinet and MACOM share the optical-link market, but earn their revenue differently: equipment makers pay Fabrinet to manufacture optical communications products, while MACOM sells semiconductor components. Fabrinet’s optical communications production offers a view of equipment demand, without implying it buys MACOM chips.
NXP Semiconductors competes with MACOM to sell communications-infrastructure customers chips that boost radio signals—RF power amplifiers—and analog components. Watch those communications products, rather than reading NXP’s automotive and other businesses as signals for MACOM.
MaxLinear, Inc. earningsMXL
MaxLinear’s report will show whether equipment makers’ spending on radio, broadband and optical-transceiver chips is also supporting MACOM’s infrastructure business.
Watch sales of MaxLinear’s base-station radio and optical-transceiver products, and compare that signal with MACOM’s Telecom and Data Center markets. Stronger sales would show equipment makers are still buying for these infrastructure applications, supporting demand for MACOM’s competing products; weaker sales would point to tighter purchasing and more pressure on MACOM’s related demand. The conclusion is whether infrastructure spending is holding up across the products the two companies compete to supply.
TTM Technologies Inc earningsTTMI
TTM Technologies’ RF & Specialty Components business will show what aerospace, defense and wireless-infrastructure customers’ RF-component orders signal for MACOM’s competing business.
Focus on TTM Technologies’ RF & Specialty Components business, not its broader printed-circuit-board operations. Stronger sales there would indicate that aerospace, defense or wireless-infrastructure customers are supporting RF-component demand, a positive read-through for MACOM’s related Industrial & Defense and Telecom products; weaker sales would suggest those customers may be ordering less, putting related demand for MACOM at risk. The conclusion is whether customer demand supports the RF markets where the companies compete.
Coherent Corp. earningsCOHR
Coherent’s Datacenter & Communications business will show what demand for optical devices and transceivers signals about the market for MACOM’s supporting semiconductors.
Watch sales in Coherent’s Datacenter & Communications business, distinguishing data-center from communications demand where the report allows, and compare the signal with MACOM’s Data Center and Telecom markets. Stronger sales would indicate customers are deploying more systems that use Coherent’s optical devices and transceivers, supporting demand for MACOM’s separate, supporting semiconductors; weaker sales would point to slower deployments and less demand for MACOM’s related products. The conclusion is whether expansion in optical networks and data-center connections is lifting demand for the different components each company sells.
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc earningsThis company
MACOM’s report will show whether sales in Data Center, Telecom and Industrial & Defense can grow without weighing on its overall gross margin.
Read revenue in Data Center, Telecom and Industrial & Defense alongside overall gross margin—the share of sales left after product costs. Growth in Data Center and Telecom with margin holding would show demand for those products is not coming at the expense of overall profitability; slower sales or a falling margin would point to demand, product mix or production costs offsetting growth. The conclusion is whether sales across MACOM’s markets are producing growth with sound economics.
Semtech Corp earningsSMTC
Semtech’s Signal Integrity business will show whether equipment makers’ purchases of optical-link and fiber-network chips are also supporting MACOM’s Data Center and Telecom markets.
Focus on Semtech’s Signal Integrity sales, not its IoT modules and connectivity services, and compare the read-through with MACOM’s Data Center and Telecom products. Rising Signal Integrity sales would show equipment makers are still buying chips for optical links, fiber access or wireless infrastructure, supporting the markets MACOM serves; falling sales would signal weaker purchasing in those applications and pressure on MACOM’s related opportunities. The conclusion is whether demand in the high-speed connection markets they share is expanding or contracting.
