Hardware Is Forever

About Hardware Is Forever

Hardware Is Forever is your source for the expert insights, ideas and innovations you need to do more in the electronics manufacturing industry. From optimization to operations, join us as we put the pieces together for a better approach to manufacturing.

Publisher

Amtech

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jun 2023

Latest episode

6 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 55 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Game Theory: The Ultimatum Game in Business Negotiation

   In the ultimatum game, one player offers a split. The other can accept or reject. If rejected, both walk away with nothing. Across decades of experiments, people reject offers that feel unfair even though zero is mathematically worse than any positive number. Fairness operates on a different layer than the math. In this episode of Hardware is Forever, Amtech CEO Jay Patel walks through what that means inside business negotiation. Jay gets into why a deal can look balanced and still feel explo...

2. 

   7 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Open Source Hardware Is the Foundation Closed-Source Shops Are Built On

   Jason Kridner and Andrew McPherson discuss how open-source hardware platforms like BeagleBoard.org and Bela empower closed-source companies to innovate.

3. 

   19 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Coordination Game Theory in Business: Why Alignment Beats Optimization

   Amtech CEO Jay Patel explains how coordination game theory reveals why organizational alignment is crucial for business success, even over individual optimization.

Inside a recent episode

Open Source Hardware Is the Foundation Closed-Source Shops Are Built On

Published 7 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Now, one of the things that taking music seriously means is that you really have to respect the constraints of musical performers. One of the big ones there is latency. Latency is a total killer. for instrumental performance. It's a really obnoxious feature of a lot of interactive digital systems, including things that run on really expensive laptops and phones. And so maybe around 10 years ago, I was doing a number of different projects around designing new instruments. And one of the things that I realized that I needed for the instrument projects at the time was something that I could do audio processing in an embedded device, but with extremely low latency. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

29,657

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

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Quality

15

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

27