Knowles Corporation
Knowles Corporation offers micro-acoustic microphones and balanced armature speakers, audio solutions, high performance capacitors, and radio frequency products for the consumer electronics, medtech, defense, electric vehicle, industrial, and communicati…
Risk Factors
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We rely on highly specialized suppliers for a variety of highly engineered or specialized components, and other inputs for which we may not be able to readily identify alternatives or substitutes in the event of a supply disruption or capacity constraint at or by any of these suppliers, which could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.
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We operate in the highly competitive smartphone industry, which requires us to invest significant capital in developing, qualifying, and ramping production of new products without any assurance of product sales. If our new products are not designed into a customer's product or qualified by a customer our operating results could be negatively impacted.
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Future events or factors, such as the outcome of our strategic alternatives review of the CMM segment which could result in either a sale or a restructuring of our CMM segment, or if there are changes to underlying assumptions used to calculate fair value, could result in additional impairment charges and a significant charge to earnings.