Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.

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As such, an album of cover versions played on computer simulations of the sounds chips of contemporary games systems and computers is the perfect blend of musical precision and gratuitous technomacho fiddling.

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Schaefer noted that increasing reliance of U.S. companies on computers could have contributed to the nearly 18 percent growth experienced by computer systems design and related services (NAICS 5415) over the last 12 months.

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In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.

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