How much more advanced can bike designs and manufacturing get?
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It also allows HP to build both high- and low-end print heads with similar designs and the same manufacturing process.
As a result, the latter are unwittingly helping to underwrite the unsavory activities of such enterprises - including: China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms build-up, environmental depradation, technology theft (including the Navy's Aegis fleet air defense system and nuclear warhead designs), espionage and slave-labor manufacturing operations, etc.
The various pieces would then be lined up and laminated together to form a working print head, a process which required HP to have two different manufacturing lines and product designs for low-end and high-end print heads.
Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
New designs are tested with focus groups and tweaked before manufacturing.
It, too, designs products to be built and then tested at outsourced manufacturing sites.
That means Flir, which does all its own manufacturing and funds most of its own research, designs its products with an eye on commercial markets and hundreds of potential customers.
Lots of need to move innovations through design, product development, marketing, derivative designs, prototype production, design for manufacturing, short-run specialty items and even prolific variation creation.
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While most of the designs of IKEA products are made in Sweden, manufacturing has been outsourced to China and other Asian countries.
It also helps Intel push its chips into smaller, battery powered devices and embedded systems, as Intel begins challenging companies manufacturing chips based on power-efficient ARM designs.
And you combine it then with an entire new U.S. auto industry that is cleaner and smarter and has better designs and is making better products -- those are potentially thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of manufacturing jobs.
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