> You probably know Belkin for its various lines of accessories, peripherals, and assorted consumer electronics; Linksys, surely the most recognizable router brand, is a subsidiary.<p>Apparently Cisco sold Linksys to Belkin in 2013. That's news to me.
The only good Belkin product I have ever seen is their 12 outlet power strip. As a network engineer everything they make with an Ethernet/wifi interface is complete shit. But this is not really news, D-Link, Netgear, many of their competitors are also junk.
Damn, I didn't know Foxconn was the 4th larges IT company with 726k employees: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_informatio...</a>
Just today I contacted Belkin live support for a usb-c gigabit Ethernet adapter that stopped working 1 month in. They are shipping me a replacement.<p>My previous experience was with a router that would occasionally fail under load (e.g., torrents), requiring a restart. They sent a replacement for that, too, but I never found a use for an unreliable router.
Neat. Belkin was pretty crap about 7 years or so ago but they raised their game I find in the last couple years. They are pretty solid with decent prices now.<p>I think there is a pretty good market for smart home accessories, various wifi enabled devices like powerstrips, lights, cameras, locks, alarm systems, etc. With Belkin's Walmart distribution network and their low costs, I think it may be something they could target well.
Was it Foxconn that was blocked from acquiring an American company earlier this month? Is this acquisition a order of magnitude smaller?<p>Is it strange that this wasn’t blocked as well?
Duplicate of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684316" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16684316</a>
foxconn makes routers for all the vendors I think, e.g. dlink.netgear,belkin...now Belkin might push its competitors away from Foxconn's assembly lines
> best known for manufacturing practically everything in the world<p>Huh? I thought they manufacture iPhone chips and that's it. Now they buy peripherals because iphone itself won't make enough profit growth anymore to give top management the multi-million-dollar bonuses they are used to.