FCC Router Ban Hits Product Pipeline – And Exposes a U.S. Manufacturing Gap
New restrictions don’t disrupt today’s router supply. They disrupt everything coming next. The U.S. buys roughly 30–60 million consumer routers
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky covers manufacturing technology, data, and AI. She is the CEO of Instrumental, which provides an AI-powered failure analysis platform for electronics manufacturing. Anna has two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She grew up as an engineer at Apple – where she designed mechanical components for three iPods and led system product design for the Apple Watch Series 1.
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