By making components like the application processor, display and power management units in the Galaxy S4, Samsung can show off differentiations in their final, assembled product.

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"Generic Prozac is a nice, large onetime cash generator, but Barr has assembled a very strong near-term product lineup that is going to continue to drive an accelerating growth profile over the next couple of years, " says Elliot Wilbur, specialty pharmaceuticals analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer.

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"We've got the ability to optimize where the product is sourced and how it is assembled, " says Wright.

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"We've got the ability to optimize where the product is sourced and how it is assembled, " says Flextronics' Wright.

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Now multiply that process by the hundreds of other similarly ubiquitous devices and gadgets: computers, Blu-Ray devices, and every other product that is designed in the United States and assembled in China from components made in the United States and elsewhere.

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The product also marks a step toward mainstream adoption with the simple fact that it arrives mostly assembled, so customers don't need to be experienced craftspeople to put the thing together.

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