The Infamous Chip Shortage

Jennifer Jones | October 15, 2021

By Jennifer Jones Every year at HITEC, there’s a new buzzword. We remember the days of “big data”, “PCI” and “blockchain”. If you weren’t talking about them, then you weren’t hanging out with the cool kids. This year’s buzzword didn’t have people running to the store to buy jars of salsa, but instead feverishly getting their electronics orders in ASAP. The “chip shortage” was definitely a topic of a lot of conversations this year at HITEC. Customers are constantly asking vendors when they will receive hardware such as displays, access points, switches – just about any type of common electronic. Vendors then c...