Evercore ISI analyst Mark Lipacis raised the firm's price target on Macom to $427 from $275 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. After a round of Q1 AI channel checks, the firm said the main themes it heard included that AI workloads are shifting from a training-led regime toward an inference-led regime by end of 2026 and that a shift is increasing focus on cost-per-token, ROI and TCO, which is accelerating hyperscaler interest in homegrown ASICs and alternative accelerators.
