On September 28, MaxLinear fell 5.04% in regular trading, trading at $88.45/share, with turnover of $45.78 million. The stock had briefly rebounded over 5% on September 25 following consecutive sessions of steep losses, but the recovery was entirely erased in the latest session.

On the news front, concerns over a potential pullback in cloud infrastructure spending continued to weigh on optical communication names. Leaders from major AI firms — including Anthropic CEO, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — collectively called for slowing frontier AI large model development, fueling market fears of reduced capital expenditure commitments from hyperscale cloud providers. MaxLinear, whose optical transceiver products target hyperscale data centers, saw outsized pressure relative to broader semiconductor peers.

Within the Semiconductors sector, performance diverged notably. NVIDIA rose 3.01%, while Broadcom slipped 0.32%, Micron Technology fell 2.16%, Advanced Micro Devices declined 2.72%, and Intel dropped 3.95%. MaxLinear's decline stood out among peers, reflecting the concentrated selling pressure on optical communication-exposed chipmakers amid the ongoing AI spending uncertainty.

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