Corsair completes Fanatec buyout after Endor insolvency, vows supply-chain fix ● a day ago What's the deal? Corsair has completed its acquisition of Fanatec, the sim racing hardware specialist owned by Germany's Endor AG. The deal absorbs Fanatec's debts, manufacturing problems, and a backlog of frustrated customers into Corsair's much larger PC hardware business. Why now? Corsair announced its plan to buy Endor earlier this year, but the acquisition looked shaky after Endor filed for insolvency in July. It went ahead regardless, and Fanatec is now part of Corsair. What's the endgame? Corsair wants to fix Fanatec's operations rather than run them as before. Chief executive officer Andy Paul told The Drive that fixing everything was already underway, though he conceded: "It's certainly not going to be business as usual because business at the moment is not as we'd like it." Two priorities stand out. Corsair says it will take a few months to build a global 24/7 support operation, replacing a service line that ran only eight hours per working day. It also wants to overhaul manufacturing, after Fanatec took months to fulfil some orders. What could go wrong? The delays are puzzling given Paul's own comment that "the factories in China are not full, not busy, so costs are actually in pretty good shape." The likely culprit was weak infrastructure and selling products that were not in stock. Corsair also plans to move Fanatec into retail. Fanatec previously sold only direct-to-consumer, while Corsair's hardware sits on shop shelves and major online stores. Paul said only lower-priced items would go through retail: "For the high-end gear, the sort of $1,000 wheel and pedals, I think that's going to either stay direct-to-consumer or [get sold via] very, very specialized retailers." The signal: Logitech dominates the mainstream racing wheel market, so