First to perfect copper-based chips, Motorola sat idly by while IBM announced its own copper process in 1997.
Also Intel indicates that they will have copper-based Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps native data rate available by 2014.
Given these advantages, copper-based products, such as IV poles and light-switch covers, are increasingly being made to prevent the spread of disease in hospitals and other institutions.
In the end, copper-based DSL technology did become a reality.
Moreover, modern copper-based grid systems tend to be cooled already.
Another miner poised to benefit from copper's rebound is Toronto-based Noranda (nyse: NRD - news - people ).
Lundin in a Toronto-based miner that produces copper and zinc through its operations in Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Congo and Russia.
IBM's approach is based on a process developed by IBM Research to crank out so-called thin-film solar cells based on copper, indium, gallium and selenide.
Based in Pheonix, Phelps Dodge has copper mining operations in the U.S., Chile, Peru and Congo, while New Orleans-based Freeport operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, and has reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and 40 million ounces of gold.
Sterlite, a subsidiary of the UK-based Vedanta mining group, runs a copper smelter in Tuticorin town.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
These swaps are based on the average of the daily settlements of the copper-futures contract for the month.
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Then there is the London-based TI Group, the global leader in making the tiny copper tubes found in brake systems and refrigeration components.
Citing uncertainty about the tax, Xstrata, a Swiss-based company, has suspended further exploration in Queensland, where it mines copper.
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The increase in the value of the yuan since 2004 means that the price of oil, iron ore, copper, agricultural products and all other commodities have gone down by 25% for China-based manufacturing relative to U.S. based manufacturing.
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Commodities were in focus once again, as copper and crude-oil prices fell sharply as investors dumped assets across the commodity complex due to broad-based risk aversion and lingering concerns over growth in China.
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