The software houses then chop up orders into bite-sized pieces and feed them to thousands of subcontractors.

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ABB's best trick is its ability to take electric current of any voltage and frequency, chop it up into tiny bits and reassemble it into the form needed.

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We can chop the data up into overall usage, sequential usage, multitasking, cross-platforming, whatever.

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The next step would be to chop this genome up into, say, 10, 000 chunks and then synthesize these.

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To find something that small you'd need to chop the lungs up into fine pieces, and then you can't transplant.

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So her staff rewrote software to chop up structural analysis into small chunks and distribute them to 5, 000 workstations to process overnight.

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Now orders have to be executed at the best available price that can be automatically executed on any exchange, even if it means asking a computer to chop up that 100, 000 order into lots of little chunks and spreading them across ten networks.

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Now Renault aims to chop its cost of capital outlays by 50%, freeing up cash that can be pumped into new models.

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