HSR Waiting Period Expires on MaxLinear’s $3.8B Silicon Motion Buy

The Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period expired Monday on MaxLinear’s proposed $3.8 billion buy of Silicon Motion, a Taiwanese supplier of NAND flash controllers for solid-state storage devices, said MaxLinear Tuesday. MaxLinear, a producer of analog and mixed-signal chips for broadband, connectivity and infrastructure applications, said it expects the transaction to close by the first half of calendar 2023 (see 2205050037).