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Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements: This Conflict Minerals Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning MaxLinear’s objectives for its conflict minerals policy and compliance initiatives and actions it intends to take relating to conflict minerals. Forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from currently anticipated results. When considering forward-looking statements, you should consider, among other factors, the risk factors described in the reports and other filings that MaxLinear files with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including MaxLinear’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 (including Amendment No. 1 thereto) and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The risk factors included in these filings are not exhaustive, and risks that are not identified therein could materially affect whether MaxLinear realizes the results anticipated or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this Conflict Minerals Report. Except as required by law, MaxLinear disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

This Conflict Minerals Report (this “Report”) for MaxLinear, Inc. (“MaxLinear” or “we” or “our”) covers the reporting period from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 and is presented in accordance with Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”). This Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to our Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (the “Form SD”). A copy of this Report and the Form SD are publicly available on our website at http://investors.maxlinear.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=233477&p=irol-sec.

In 2010, the United States enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”). Section 1502 of the Act relates to conflict minerals and requires companies subject to the Act to file a Form SD annually with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to disclose whether the tungsten, tantalum, tin, and gold (referred to collectively as “3TG”) used in their products benefitted, directly or indirectly, armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries (collectively, the “Covered Countries”). This Report, which is an exhibit to our Form SD, describes the design and implementation of our conflict minerals due diligence measures undertaken in 2015, including a description of how these measures were designed to determine, to our knowledge, the source mines, countries of origin, and processing facilities for 3TG contained in components used in MaxLinear’s products.

In addition, on April 30, 2015, MaxLinear completed its acquisition of Entropic Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation and former publicly-traded company listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market (“Entropic”). Accordingly, this Report covers products that Entropic manufactured or contracted to manufacture during the portion of 2015 prior to our acquisition of Entropic that contain conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of such products.

MaxLinear is a provider of radio-frequency and mixed-signal integrated circuits for cable and satellite broadband communications, the connected home, data center, metro, and long-haul networks, and wireless infrastructure. As a fabless semiconductor company, we do not manufacture our integrated circuits but contract for their manufacture through semiconductor foundries in Asia. Our supply chain is complex, and multiple tiers exist between the mines from which 3TG are extracted and its incorporation into our products. We do not purchase raw ore or unrefined 3TG directly and make no purchases in the Covered Countries. As a result and as described more fully below, we rely on our foundries and suppliers to provide information on the origin of the 3TG contained in our products.

During 2014, MaxLinear contracted to manufacture and had manufactured a total of 57 integrated circuits, or IC Products, (as measured by individual stock keeping units or SKUs) for our markets. We currently provide several types of broadband and communications semiconductor devices: radio frequency, or RF, receivers and RF Receiver System on Chip, or RF SoCs; transimpedance amplifiers, or TIA’s; laser driver integrated circuits; and clock and data recovery devices, or CDR’s. Our semiconductor solutions combine various analog and mixed-signal technologies and functionality that traditionally required the use of multiple external discrete components. Over 99% of Maxlinear’s revenues in calendar year 2015 were generated through sales of IC Products.

facilitate the sale of Maxlinear’s IC Products. Because of their limited application, Board Products are manufactured and sold in very small quantities. Board Products are either assembled at Maxlinear facilities or manufactured for Maxlinear by third party suppliers. The supplier base for Board Products varies widely and includes many small suppliers, including printed circuit board manufacturers, component distributors, component manufacturers and manufacturers of custom made hardware such as RF filters, connectors, cables, etc. The sales of Board Products represented less than 1% of Maxlinear’s revenues in calendar year 2015.

MaxLinear RCOI consisted principally of submitting to its suppliers the conflict minerals reporting template (the “CFSI Template”) prepared by the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”), an initiative of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and Global e-Sustainability Initiative. MaxLinear submitted the CFSI Template to all of its contract manufacturers and all of its first tier suppliers of components. MaxLinear then reviewed all responses for completeness, reasonableness, and consistency, and followed up for corrections and clarifications as MaxLinear determined appropriate.

MaxLinear’s due diligence measures were designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (the “OECD Framework”). The objectives of our diligence initiative were to determine, to the best of our ability, the source and chain of custody of the 3TG necessary for the functionality and/or production of our products; whether any such 3TG originated in the Covered Countries; and where such 3TG were determined to have originated in Covered Countries, whether armed groups directly or indirectly benefitted from such 3TG.

Because of our position within our supply chain, identifying actors upstream from our first tier contract manufacturers and suppliers is difficult. As discussed above, we identified our foundries and first tier suppliers and relied on them to provide the necessary information about the source of conflict minerals contained in the products that we contract to have manufactured. Similarly, our foundries and first tier suppliers rely on information provided by their suppliers to provide information regarding the country of origin of 3TG included in our products.

We are in the process of developing a formal risk management plan through which our conflict minerals program will be implemented, managed, and monitored. During calendar years 2013, 2014, 2015 and continuing into 2016, where foundries or suppliers were unable to provide MaxLinear with complete or reliable responses to the CFSI template, we considered these matters internally. To date, we have not identified any circumstances where we concluded that it was necessary to terminate any contract or relationship or find a replacement manufacturer or supplier as a result of conflict minerals matters.

We do not have a direct relationship with any smelters or refiners in our supply chain. As a result, we do not and cannot conduct any audits directly. Instead, we support the development and implementation of independent third party audits of smelters such as the CFSI’s Conflict Free Smelter Program (“CFSP”) by encouraging our foundries and other suppliers to purchase materials from audited smelters that have been validated as conflict-free under the CFSP.

In May 2016, we publicly filed the Form SD and this Report with the SEC. A copy of this Report and the Form SD are publicly available at http://investors.maxlinear.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=233477&p=irol-sec. This Report includes information about the RCOI methodology utilized by the Company, the design of our due diligence process in conformance with the OECD Framework, the list of known smelters and refiners utilized in our supply chain identified in our due diligence process, and a description of our products that incorporate 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of such products.



Metal	Smelter or Refiner Name	Country	CFSP*
Gold	Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C**
Gold	Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong	CHINA	C**#
Gold	Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.	TAIWAN	C**
Gold	Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.	CHINA	C**#
Gold	Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.	SOUTH AFRICA	C**
Gold	Metalor Technologies SA	SWITZERLAND	C**#
Gold	PAMP SA	SWITZERLAND	C**
Gold	Valcambi SA	SWITZERLAND	C**#
Gold	Argor-Heraeus SA	SWITZERLAND	C**
Gold	Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint	AUSTRALIA	C**
Gold	Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Elemetal Refining, LLC	UNITED STATES	C**
Gold	Heimerle + Meule GmbH	GERMANY	C**
Gold	Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.	GERMANY	C**#
Gold	AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração	BRAZIL	C**
Gold	Asahi Pretec Corporation	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Asahi Refining Canada Limited	CANADA	C**
Gold	Asahi Refining USA Inc.	UNITED STATES	C**
Gold	Aurubis AG	GERMANY	C**
Gold	CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation	CANADA	C**
Gold	Chimet S.p.A.	ITALY	C**
Gold	Dowa	JAPAN	C



Gold	Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG	GERMANY	C**
Gold	Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Kennecott Utah Copper LLC	UNITED STATES	C**#
Gold	Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.	KOREA, REPUBLIC OF	C**
Gold	Materion	UNITED STATES	C
Gold	Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Metalor USA Refining Corporation	UNITED STATES	C**
Gold	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Nihon Material Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Republic Metals Corporation	UNITED STATES	C**#
Gold	Royal Canadian Mint	CANADA	C**
Gold	SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA	SPAIN	C**
Gold	Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C**
Gold	Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C**
Gold	Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining	BELGIUM	C**
Gold	United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.	UNITED STATES	C
Gold	Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Gold	Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation	CHINA	C**
Tantalum	H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar	GERMANY	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Inc.	UNITED STATES	C
Tantalum	Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tantalum	Global Advanced Metals Boyertown	UNITED STATES	C
Tantalum	Exotech Inc.	UNITED STATES	C
Tantalum	Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC	KAZAKHSTAN	C
Tantalum	F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tantalum	Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO	RUSSIAN FEDERATION	C
Tantalum	Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Tantalum	Mitsui Mining & Smelting	JAPAN	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg	GERMANY	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.	THAILAND	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH	GERMANY	C
Tantalum	H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG	GERMANY	C
Tantalum	Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tantalum	Plansee SE Liezen	AUSTRIA	C
Tantalum	Taki Chemicals	JAPAN	C
Tin	PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited	CHINA	C
Tin	CV United Smelting	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Metallo-Chimique N.V.	BELGIUM	C
Tin	Mitsubishi Materials Corporation	JAPAN	C
Tin	PT Bukit Timah	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Mineração Taboca S.A.	BRAZIL	C
Tin	Minsur	PERU	C
Tin	Thaisarco	THAILAND	C



Tin	Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)	MALAYSIA	C
Tin	Fenix Metals	POLAND	C
Tin	O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.	PHILIPPINES	C
Tin	Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.	BOLIVIA	C
Tin	PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tin	Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda.	BRAZIL	C
Tin	EM Vinto	BOLIVIA	C
Tin	PT Tinindo Inter Nusa	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CHINA	A
Tin	Alpha	UNITED STATES	C
Tin	An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company	VIET NAM	A
Tin	China Tin Group Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tin	CV Serumpun Sebalai	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Dowa	JAPAN	C
Tin	Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.	BRAZIL	C
Tin	PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Artha Cipta Langgeng	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Babel Inti Perkasa	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Bangka Tin Industry	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT DS Jaya Abadi	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Inti Stania Prima	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Justindo	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Mitra Stania Prima	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Panca Mega Persada	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Prima Timah Utama	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Refined Bangka Tin	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa	INDONESIA	C
Tin	PT Wahana Perkit Jaya	INDONESIA	C
Tin	Rui Da Hung	TAIWAN	C
Tin	Soft Metais Ltda.	BRAZIL	C
Tin	White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.	BRAZIL	C
Tungsten	Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.	UNITED STATES	C
Tungsten	H.C. Starck GmbH	GERMANY	C
Tungsten	Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.	CHINA	A
Tungsten	Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.	JAPAN	C
Tungsten	Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.	CHINA	C
Tungsten	Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.	JAPAN	C
Tungsten	Kennametal Huntsville	UNITED STATES	A
Tungsten	Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.	VIET NAM	A
Tungsten	Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG	AUSTRIA	C

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*	This column indicates whether the known smelter or refiner participates in the CFSP as a smelter that sources conflict minerals in a manner that does not finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. For purposes of this column, “C” denotes that the smelter participates in the CFSP and has been certified and audited by the CFSI, and “A” denotes that the smelter has agreed to participate in the CFSP but that the audit process has not yet been completed as of May 20, 2016.
**	Denotes a London Bullion Market Association accredited gold refiner on the Good Delivery List as of May 20, 2016.
#	Denotes a Responsible Jewellery Council Certified Member as of May 20, 2016.

We have communicated our expectations to our foundries and other first tier suppliers regarding our commitment to sourcing minerals for our products in a manner that does not, directly or indirectly, finance or benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries. Since the end of 2013, we have continued, and expect to continue to increase our engagement with our relevant manufacturing foundries and first tier suppliers in order to build their knowledge and capacity so they are able to provide MaxLinear with more complete and accurate information on the source and chain of custody of conflict minerals.


a.	Conflict Minerals Policy. In 2013, MaxLinear adopted and communicated to its foundries and suppliers a written policy relating to the use of conflict minerals in its supply chain. A copy of MaxLinear’s Conflict Minerals Policy is publicly available at http://www.maxlinear.com/corporate-social-responsibility/.


b.	Internal Management to Support Supply Chain Due Diligence. MaxLinear has established an internal compliance team with members from its operations, finance, and legal functions, and these individuals are charged with the management of our conflict minerals program, including the integration of Entropic’s conflict minerals program with that of MaxLinear.


e.	Grievance Mechanism. MaxLinear’s code of conduct includes procedures for reporting violations, and we provide mechanisms for anonymous reporting of violations or concerns about the conduct of our business, including our implementation and enforcement of our Conflict Minerals Policy.


2.	Identification and Assessment of Risks in the Supply Chain


3.	Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks


4.	Carrying Out Independent Third-Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain


1.	Establishment of Internal Management Systems