While there hasn’t been much in the way of M&A activity to shout about in recent months, US semiconductor heavyweight MaxLinear recently secured the deal of a lifetime by landing Intel’s gateway business for the bargain price of $150 million. But it wasn’t until tucking into a conversation with Dr. Leonard Dauphinee that the clear synergies between MaxLinear’s ambitions and those of the elusive Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) became clear – for which Dauphinee is now top brass at both. The last time we heard from MoCA was during a session at Cable Congress last year (remember when we used to travel to events?), when the tradeoff between DOCSIS 3.1 and MoCA Access technologies was brushed aside – because…