What is the expected revenue for MaxLinear's infrastructure business in 2022 from a year-over-year perspective? 
hat you've heard in our prepared remarks and what Kishore shared already. I do feel confident that you're going to continue to see growth there. I mean, as I look into next year, we're continuing to see really nice growth in that business from a year-over-year perspective. And so supply chain constraints are going to push some of that to the back half of the year and into '22. But I mean, we're seeing very solid demand in '22 already.
Bill Peterson -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
That's really good color. Maybe more specifically coming to the infrastructure and in particular access. We're hearing more about O-RAN coming. You kind of mentioned the Facebook opportunity, on one hand it feels like it's still few years away, but I guess, when do you really expect some of these O-RAN developments to start and how is MaxLinear positioned, you talked about the 8x8, but obviously, we've seen some announcements from some of your peers that they're working closely with some of the compute companies or other companies that have already sort of started some initial O-RAN deployments?
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bill, obviously, we are working with all of those. If you're on the Facebook Evenstar program they're all natural allies and partners, and cool developers on the full solution. And so as being selected at the front end transceiver DFE, O-RAN single chip or macro base station applications, we are a big part of that game plan. Regarding things pushing out to years on shipment, my gosh, I mean we have been investing for three years now in wireless infrastructure and it seems like this is the nature of the beast.
O I think that if you are going to invest infrastructure and this is good in the optical side as well, is that you are in for the long haul. We are committed. The TAM is wonderful. It's very high quality product that really very complementary to our great engineering skills. And so we are in this for real and for the long-term. So while we live in this quarterly world of earnings this thing, my focus is the long-term and I think we should feel really, really good because we combine the analog RF mixed signal capabilities with really high end at the tip of the spear, 5-nanometer technology capabilities. I dare say among the players that are present today in this ecosystem, maybe there have been future ones. You can't pick anybody who can match it right now, right? It's a matter of getting into the customer and getting the sales to ramp and that's going to take at their pace, and that's OK. I've been patient now for 15 years in my life, I got 15 more to go.
Bill Peterson -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
It's good to hear that you're comparative in the space, and we look forward to seeing the progress. Thank you.
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Bill.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Sam Peterman with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed with your question.
Sam Peterman -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst
Hi, guys. Sam on for Richard here. Thanks for taking my questions. I want to ask about MIMO. I'm curious what kind of share you guys think you can get with your SoCs from MIMO, particularly the 8x8 that you're coming to market toward the leading edge with you've named Texas Instruments, maybe [Indecipherable] your biggest competitors. Curious how you expect share to shake out and does Nokia ramping the recharge SoCs in 2021 effect at all? Thanks.
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
You ask a very, very hard question, because nobody is shipping 8x8 right now, have some design wins been awarded, yes. And you really need to keep in mind that the Chinese OEMs are not part of the configuration right now for the most part for anybody, they are now reverting to the older platforms and shipments given the the regulatory restrictions, trade restrictions that both Huawei has been put under.
So now the whole dynamic has changed, and 8x8 is going to be driven by the western OEMs, and the Japanese and the Korea
hat you've heard in our prepared remarks and what Kishore shared already. I do feel confident that you're going to continue to see growth there. I mean, as I look into next year, we're continuing to see really nice growth in that business from a year-over-year perspective. And so supply chain constraints are going to push some of that to the back half of the year and into '22. But I mean, we're seeing very solid demand in '22 already.
Bill Peterson -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
That's really good color. Maybe more specifically coming to the infrastructure and in particular access. We're hearing more about O-RAN coming. You kind of mentioned the Facebook opportunity, on one hand it feels like it's still few years away, but I guess, when do you really expect some of these O-RAN developments to start and how is MaxLinear positioned, you talked about the 8x8, but obviously, we've seen some announcements from some of your peers that they're working closely with some of the compute companies or other companies that have already sort of started some initial O-RAN deployments?
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bill, obviously, we are working with all of those. If you're on the Facebook Evenstar program they're all natural allies and partners, and cool developers on the full solution. And so as being selected at the front end transceiver DFE, O-RAN single chip or macro base station applications, we are a big part of that game plan. Regarding things pushing out to years on shipment, my gosh, I mean we have been investing for three years now in wireless infrastructure and it seems like this is the nature of the beast.
 O I think that if you are going to invest infrastructure and this is good in the optical side as well, is that you are in for the long haul. We are committed. The TAM is wonderful. It's very high quality product that really very complementary to our great engineering skills. And so we are in this for real and for the long-term. So while we live in this quarterly world of earnings this thing, my focus is the long-term and I think we should feel really, really good because we combine the analog RF mixed signal capabilities with really high end at the tip of the spear, 5-nanometer technology capabilities. I dare say among the players that are present today in this ecosystem, maybe there have been future ones. You can't pick anybody who can match it right now, right? It's a matter of getting into the customer and getting the sales to ramp and that's going to take at their pace, and that's OK. I've been patient now for 15 years in my life, I got 15 more to go.
Bill Peterson -- JP Morgan -- Analyst
It's good to hear that you're comparative in the space, and we look forward to seeing the progress. Thank you.
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Bill.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Sam Peterman with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed with your question.
Sam Peterman -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst
Hi, guys. Sam on for Richard here. Thanks for taking my questions. I want to ask about MIMO. I'm curious what kind of share you guys think you can get with your SoCs from MIMO, particularly the 8x8 that you're coming to market toward the leading edge with you've named Texas Instruments, maybe [Indecipherable] your biggest competitors. Curious how you expect share to shake out and does Nokia ramping the recharge SoCs in 2021 effect at all? Thanks.
Kishore Seendripu -- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
 You ask a very, very hard question, because nobody is shipping 8x8 right now, have some design wins been awarded, yes. And you really need to keep in mind that the Chinese OEMs are not part of the configuration right now for the most part for anybody, they are now reverting to the older platforms and shipments given the the regulatory restrictions, trade restrictions that both Huawei has been put under.
So now the whole dynamic has changed, and 8x8 is going to be driven by the western OEMs, and the Japanese and the Korea