What I love about the MacBook Air is the design of the hardware.
The Galaxy S4, the iPhone 5, both are great pieces of hardware design and engineering.
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Nokia pulled off the strong early UK showing largely via the unusual hardware design of the Lumia 800.
The design of their datacenters, hardware, and network are all fundamentally different.
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"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
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The stunning hardware and design of the Z10 is on top of every available handsets on the market.
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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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"The Ben Heck Show" is a bi-weekly online television series aired in English that's dedicated to the science and art of system and hardware modding with a global audience of design engineers, students and electronic enthusiasts.
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Do you believe that mobile carriers are to controlling in the actual design (hardware and software) of cellular handsets these days?
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Continuously participate in the research and design of the technical architecture (including hardware, software and other components), use appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of system architectures.
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While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
The hardware design may be ahead of its competitors, but that really does not matter if the overall operational strategy is wrong.
Counter intuitively, the hardest part of realizing a decent data infrastructure is not the hardware or technology choice, but the design and architecture of your information system.
Palm Pre introduces a breakthrough user interface and hardware design that makes it one of the most integrated and user-friendly mobile phones on the market.
To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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The proof of concept design was initially created some time ago, and sponsors of the project have helped build the hardware according to the students' original designs.
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Another possibility would be a radically new hardware design and there are a few of them out there.
Another interesting thing about the development of this engine is the role of software in high-end hardware design.
To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.
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"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level, " he told the BBC News website.
The HTC Windows Phone 8X shows that with a bit of focus can make a smartphone with standout hardware and design.
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Many SMBs have struggled to adopt big data and private cloud solutions due to lack of in-house skills and expertise to design and maintain commodity hardware-based systems, IBM said in its announcement.
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" Dr Piekarski explained, "The hardware requires a lot of care and thought in the design.
Apple is lauded for hardware design, but has been a bit schizophrenic in terms of design and style with their software.
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He was previously responsible for Apple hardware design and in December was promoted to be in charge of the look and feel of its software as well.
But until the performance benchmarking of actual, real-world AMD and Intel hardware begins, which design wins out is still anyone's call, Brookwood said.
The design of a new phone can be tweaked right up until the last minute without changing the hardware.
Any change in supplier or design would be "a pretty significant challenge, " the person said, requiring layers of modification from hardware to controlling software to adjust for a new battery.
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