He still needed a well-connected player to make a go of computer manufacturing.
They have joined an influx of Indian firms in computer services, manufacturing and steelmaking.
The second and even more surprising growth sector is computer and electronics manufacturing.
Wadhwani, born in India 52 years ago and schooled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had founded a software firm (since sold to ABB of Switzerland) and was chief executive of Cimflex Technology (computer-assisted manufacturing) before founding Aspect in Mountain View, California, in 1991.
Motorola's news follows similar announcements by Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which is building a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and Apple, which has said it will begin manufacturing a Mac computer in the U.S. this year.
Such molecular motors, Yurke says, could be used as a way of manufacturing faster computer chips.
Manufacturing, computer services and some financial services, such as asset management and stockbroking, are among the many industries open (or mostly open) to foreigners.
What computer aided design and manufacturing have done visibly for architecture in the work of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, they can now do for the unseen working of jet engines.
Eximbank loans made in 1985 for several meat-processing plants, copper-processing facilities, a turnkey chemical complex, a color-television tube plant, a glass funnel facility, a process computer used in steel manufacturing, and a tractor factory remain unpaid.
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It will be a computer that is worn on the wrist and thus the manufacturing costs are commensurate with a computer, not with extant watches.
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Computer-aided design and manufacturing have given us products never before possible.
Likewise Digital Equipment focused on its profit margin in computer-aided design and manufacturing software only to be destroyed by its lower margin but higher volume competitor AutoCad.
But just like televisions, computer-aided design and manufacturing has changed the abilities and durability of the cars, bringing them into line with other, much more expensive automobiles.
If Proteus is right, and these sensors become commonplace, exponential growth in digital medicine for compliance monitoring will require as much silicon wafer manufacturing as all computer chips use today.
In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.
Hon Hai describes itself as the biggest manufacturing services provider to the computer, communication and consumer electronics industries.
Such an investment would create jobs in engineering, construction and computer fields, and have indirect effects on manufacturing and component assembling employment.
Once a design is set, different bits of the manufacturing process are tried out on computer: a virtual pipe-bending machine, for instance, makes sure that the fuel lines which snake their way through the airframe can be created without wrapping themselves around the machine and bringing it to a halt.
While, as we know, a lot of the productivity growth of the 1990s was actually the computer industry itself becoming more efficient at its own manufacturing, the current boom is from people working out what to actually do with the bright shiny boxes.
Clark, a Merck lifer who previously headed the company's manufacturing division, has focused initially on improving the efficiency of the company's production plants. (Under his plan, many of the job cuts will come from manufacturing, and five of Merck's 31 plants will be closed.) The goal, outlined on today's call, is to increase manufacturing efficiency, much as automakers like General Motors or computer makers like Dell have in the past.
So the movement of work abroad in search of lower labour costs is no longer confined to manufacturing but now also includes white-collar jobs, from computer programming to copywriting and back-office legal tasks.
In the past three years, Penang attracted personal computer giants Dell Computer and Packard Bell-NEC to set up their Asia-Pacific regional manufacturing and distribution centers.
Manufacturing industries reporting contraction in July included manufacturers of wood and paper products, computer and electronic products, textile mills, chemical products, transportation equipment and machinery.
Then again, even with reams of data (manufacturing orders, consumer spending, unemployment rates, stock prices) and complex computer models at their disposal, richly paid soothsayers prove notoriously bad at predicting the future.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
The valley responded by revamping its own manufacturing operations, outsourcing many of them, and by diversifying into other areas, particularly computer software.
Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".
Similarly, Lexmark managed to reduce the weight of its packaging for computer printers by 26%, leading to a dramatic reduction in the energy used in its product manufacturing.
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Microelectronics manufacturing capabilities including the latest state-of-the-art equipment needed to build custom computer chips and subminiature microwave devices.
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Last year, federal regulators blamed heavy tube wear in the generators on a botched computer analysis that they said badly misjudged how water and steam would flow in the reactors, along with manufacturing problems.
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