I will...Igor replied to me that Cool Audio wasn't making their chips anymore

-- jb61264

OK, now THAT'S disturbing. Cool Audio is, basically, Uli. There's one of two possibilities...

1) Tribe is depending on the same chip fabs in China that ALSO have the production lines snarled for any number of things from cars to appliances. If this is the problem, then it's a big one.

2) Uli's squandering the chips for his own production lines since there ARE serious supply issues going on, and Tribe needs to keep their factories going.

My bet is that the truth consists of parts of both of those possibilities.