The second and even more surprising growth sector is computer and electronics manufacturing.
Before mid-January, there wasn't much interest in the computer and electronics maker.
Hardest hit will be apparel knitting mills and computer and electronics factories.
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The effects of the flood on technology companies affected many across a swath of computer and electronics component makers that depend on supply chains that come out of Bangkok.
The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
"I believe we've got to find the right combination of incentives and initiatives to bridge this divide, " Clinton said Tuesday in a speech at COMDEX, a major trade show for computer and electronics products in Chicago.
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Coming in at 2, 012 on our list is Taiwan's Inventec, a contract manufacturer and global exporter of computer hardware and consumer electronics devices.
Apple, like many other big personal-computer and consumer-electronics brands, doesn't actually make most of its products.
Despite the hurdles, personal computer vendors and consumer electronics players can't afford to cede the market to Apple, notes Kevorkian.
Apparel and accessories, consumer electronics and computer hardware.
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After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering, Cheah added a business management certificate from Stanford, and then worked for a series of electronics and computer companies including Sun Microsystems in California.
Hon Hai describes itself as the biggest manufacturing services provider to the computer, communication and consumer electronics industries.
They are an opening salvo in a battle between the computer and the consumer-electronics industries over who will dominate the digital household.
The meeting, held in Stockholm July 16-20, gathered almost 450 people from 26 countries representing the telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics industries to approve and issue a draft standard for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
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The top-performing online product categories were digital content and subscriptions, event tickets, jewelry and watches, consumer electronics (excl. computer peripherals) and computer software.
The rest of the Asia-Pacific region managed a 1.3% expansion, and in Europe - where the use of chips in consumer electronics and cars outweighs computer use - sales were up 5.8%.
The specialist software has been prepared by graduate electronics and computer expert Michael Keating.
Production systems from Quanta Computer and Tyan are expected to be available through Avnet Electronics Marketing, Penguin Computing and other system integrators before the end of Q1.
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The Computer Electronics Show is underway and, once again, Samsung is the dominant name.
GaN switches convert power at higher frequencies than traditional components and can be easily embedded in virtually any electrical system from consumer electronics products to computer servers, HVAC equipment, industrial motor drives, and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles.
It includes optical films for computer monitors, televisions, and hand-held electronics.
Well that kid is all grown up now, and has morphed into Apple Computer, whom the New York Times reports is putting small electronics manufacturers out of business left and right due in part to the sweet deal they got from Samsung on flash memory for the iPod nano.
These will appeal to technophobes and will bring consumer-electronics firms, such as Sony and Philips, into competition with the computer industry.
The globalisation of supply chains has created a need to send electronics, computer components, precision equipment and the like around the world quickly.
With computer makers, old-line camera companies, and electronics giants all jumping into a fresh field, there is an unusual variety of interpretations of what a digital camera should do and look like.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Its parent company, Pioneer Corporation, is a preeminent manufacturer of high-performance audio, video and computer equipment for the home, car and business markets and is celebrating 75 years of innovation in the consumer electronics industry.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) the U.S. Department of Defense agency that helped fund the development of computer networking and global positioning founded the Energy Starved Electronics program at MIT in 2005 to accelerate the development of these technologies.
Standing in the audience was Francis Lee, a short and balding electronics executive with a complicated relationship with the computer mogul.
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