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What’s Delaying New Chip Fabs to Reinforce the Supply Chain? Yep…The Supply Chain

April 13, 2022 by Ted 1 Comment

chip shortages bedevil the supply chain
[Photo: AFP/Jiji]

Ever since supply chain shortages hit many industries, particularly in relation to the availability of integrated circuits or chips, there has been a massive scramble to increase capacity and to build new chip fabricating facilities (fabs) or factories. There has been a series of announcements from huge companies like Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Samsung, and others launching massive multi-billion projects to add more chip production facilities.

There’s just one problem…the equipment they need to build these facilities are themselves delayed.

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, Economic Trends, Management, Manufacturers, News, supply chain Tagged With: chip shortage

Perlisten Audio Appoints Erik Wiederholtz as Chief Technical Officer

April 7, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

perlisten audio website

High-end audio maker Perlisten Audio announced today that it has appointed Erik Wiederholtz as its Chief Technical Officer (CTO). The appointment was announced by Perlisten CEO Dan Roemer.

Learn more about Perlisten and Wiederholtz

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Filed Under: Brands, Manufacturers, News, People Tagged With: Dan Roemer, Erik Wiederholtz, Perlisten Audio

New CEDIA Market Study Offers Useful Data with Some Interesting Twists

April 6, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

title slide from CEDIA market study

For the first time in quite a while, CEDIA released the results of a new market study that helped to illuminate where the market is at today. There were, as usual, some significant surprises presented – perhaps the first was an interesting change in methodology that may perhaps serve to deliver a clearer view of key market data.

See what I found in this latest CEDIA market study…

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Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, News, Research, Statistics, Survey Tagged With: CEDIA

As Companies Have Employees Return to Office, Is This the End of Remote Work?

April 6, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

Google hybrid workspace for return to office
An experimental hybrid workspace and meeting in progress at Google

What Will the Impact of This Trend Be on Custom Integration?

With COVID now seemingly in decline, on Monday Google employees (Googlers?) began the process of returning to work at the company’s various headquarter and other office locations around the country. The company is requiring they work at least three days a week in the office, continuing to work remotely for the other two.

Google is hardly alone in pulling employees back to the office, Apple employees return next week and most major companies have announced dates for office life to begin again. Will this kill remote work and have an impact on the custom integration business?

Read more on this new return to work period

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Filed Under: Brands, Consumer Trends, Integrators, Management, News, Strategy Tagged With: Apple, COVID, Google, hybrid workforce

AAMP Global Acquires AudioControl

March 31, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

AAMP Global, a leading global manufacturer of a wide array of technology products for the personal and commercial vehicle markets, announced today the strategic acquisition of AudioControl – the well-known specialty manufacturer of electronics products for the automotive, residential, and commercial audio channels. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but AAMP says that AudioControl’s Seattle, WA-based operations and team will continue to operate as an independent facility under the AAMP Global umbrella.

I spoke with top executives of both companies to learn more about what drew the parties together and just what is meant by a “strategic” acquisition.

See more on the AAMP acquisition of AudioControl

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Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Integrators, Management, Manufacturers, News, People, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: AAMP Global, acquisition, Alex Camara, AudioControl, Herb Brown

Consumer Sentiment Nears 11-Year Low; Near-Term Inflation the Bogeyman

March 29, 2022 by Ted 2 Comments

consumer shopping
[Photo: Reuters}

For three straight months now, consumer sentiment has declined as the world faces war in Europe, soaring global gas prices, price inflation on a wide range of consumer goods, and lingering supply chain issues. As measured by the widely followed University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment released earlier this month, the index is nearing its lowest level in 11-years.

See more on the souring consumer sentiment and what it means

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Filed Under: Consumer Trends, Economic Trends, News Tagged With: consumer sentiment, Index of Consumer Sentiment, University of Michigan

ProSource Expands Leadership Team; Appoints Jim Pearse as President

March 25, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

Jim Pearse, new ProSource President

This week, ProSource announced that it was expanding its leadership team by adding well-known retail industry executive Jim Pearse as its new President. The duties of the president were once part of CEO Dave Workman’s role, but the group says this management team expansion is now necessary to support the group’s continued growth.

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Filed Under: Buying Groups, News, People Tagged With: Dave Workman, Jim Pearse, ProSource

New CEDIA CEO; Ignoring Distractions & Getting Down to Business

March 23, 2022 by Ted 4 Comments

CEDIA Global President and CEO Daryl Friedman (L) looks positively terrified, doesn’t he? [Click to enlarge]

PART 1: Identifying Membership ‘Stress Points’

In a Zoom interview last week, I sought to take more of a measure of the man who now runs CEDIA, its new Global President and Chief Executive Officer Daryl Friedman. We first met, and I first told you about Friedman, back when his selection was first announced to the world just a little over 100 days ago. Friedman was in a series of round-robin press interviews and we only had a few minutes to interact. Now, 106 days later (at the time of this interview) he’s traveled the country, gotten his feet wet, and had much more depth of thoughts to share with Strata-gee readers.

See more on Friedman and his plans for CEDIA

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Filed Under: Associations, Education, Integrators, Management, News, People, Strategy Tagged With: CEDIA, Daryl Friedman

Crestron Acquires 1 Beyond, Adding Intelligent Video to Improve Hybrid Meetings

March 23, 2022 by Ted 1 Comment

Crestron Electronics announced today that it is acquiring 1 Beyond, an innovative provider of intelligent video products that enable more effective meetings – especially meetings that blend in-office and remote participants, known as hybrid meetings. The company said that the 1 Beyond team will stay at their existing base in Boston, MA. The terms of the deal were not released.

See more on what the 1 Beyond acquisition means for Crestron

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Filed Under: Brands, Integrators, Manufacturers, News, Strategy, Technology Tagged With: 1 Beyond, acquisition, Crestron, Crestron Electronics, intelligent video

Tech’s Newest Power Couple: Sony and Honda

March 18, 2022 by Ted Leave a Comment

Sony and Honda CEOs announce joint venture

So Sony has just pulled a major donut – finally coming full circle. Sony Group’s CEO stood alongside Honda Motor’s CEO as the two companies announced that they were forming a joint venture with automotive manufacturing powerhouse Honda agreeing to partner with the sensor and mobile entertainment electronics king Sony to actually manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) – or what we’ve known up to this point as the Sony Vision-S vehicles. At last, our trip down the long and winding (and confusing) road has arrived at a final destination.

And with this announcement, we now have tech’s newest power couple…

See more on the Sony & Honda joint venture

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, Manufacturers, News, Products, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends, Technology Tagged With: autonomous, electric vehicle, Honda, Honda Motor, Sony

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