It looks to be a low-cost, high-volume Marketplace ad for a group dedicated to advocating for gun ownership rights.

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But newer manufacturing technologies, combined with a demand for low-cost chips to serve the high-volume consumer electronics market, have spurred chip makers to seek new ways to design their products.

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With the design changes and the cost advantages of high-volume production, GE improved reliability (uptime) from 85 percent to 97 percent at a price advantage to customers.

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This device can then be used as the basis for more integrated and cost-efficient, high-volume production versions to help reduce the time and costs of getting to market.

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The hot IT buzzword of 2012, big data has become viable as cost-effective approaches have emerged to tame the volume, velocity and variability of massive data.

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In the late 1960s microwave replaced copper wire as the mainstay of long-distance phone traffic: more volume at lower cost.

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At half the cost of traditional metal stamping, hydroforming may well be the secret to low-volume production on models that might appeal to a narrow group of buyers.

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We earned their business and achieved what we set out to achieve: unit volume growth in our core crops, a successful implementation of our agricultural productivity strategy and sustained cost-discipline across our operations.

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But until the manufacturing costs are offset by volume, it's an expensive ramp-up process: Yang expects the first run to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and produce 200 to 500 microscopes.

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