Will Samsung summon up the nerve to invest in services the way it invests in components?
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Many highly successful breakthroughs also go largely unnoticed because the specialize in components or complex software.
The first prong involved investing heavily in advanced technology and manufacturing to create defensible market share in components.
However, the company, which uses a laser deposition process to make nanomaterials for use in components to be sold to networking equipment players, faces a tough battle.
Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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Laboratory tests to see whether handling, aging or manufacturing problems have developed in components such as radars showed delays in eight of 30 tests related to the B-61 nuclear bombs and in eight of 31 tests planned for the W-76 warhead used on sub-launched Trident I missiles.
There may be economies of scale in buying components and in spreading research-and-development costs over more cars.
In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
BTR, to make big investments in developing components for the car and building new factories in which to make them.
The quantities of rare earths used in technology components are so tiny that higher prices are invisible in the cost to consumers.
These products, in turn become essential components in even more numerous downstream products.
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Now multiply that process by the hundreds of other similarly ubiquitous devices and gadgets: computers, Blu-Ray devices, and every other product that is designed in the United States and assembled in China from components made in the United States and elsewhere.
The firm will also try to keep at least 95% of the funds invested in the components of whatever index they are tracking, at least 80% of the funds in stocks.
Assist in mainstreaming capacity-development components in all IOC programmes, harmonized according to the principles of the IOC Capacity Development Strategy.
Note that we're talking averages here and that there was much variation in the components over time.
Last year, the corporation invested further in producing components for mobile phones, moving away from the powerful D-RAM computer chips.
Many of their competitors buy in the components from third parties, making it harder for them to claim such an exclusive.
Increases in exports add to GDP while increases in imports subtract from GDP because they were counted in other components of spending.
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Elmarc uses cheap chips from U.S.-based chipmaker Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) in the components to give washing machines brains.
An interesting additional fact is that though the Japanese did almost no exporting of handsets, the story could hardly have been more different in cellphone components.
Without realistic testing, we can only introduce changes in the components or designs of existing weapons at the risk of further degrading confidence they will work.
When you start a new project (a company, product line, or division), the program prompts you to fill in the components of your business model on the canvas.
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Cloud is also driving evolutionary change in its components, like server microvisors for stronger security, low cost Flash storage for large data sets and energy-saving chips.
The company is refreshing nearly its entire line, and while these new models usher in upgraded components, they have the same industrial design as the original lot.
The answer to creating an effective multi-purpose venue is found in flexible components like orchestra shells, and adjustable sound-absorbing materiel deployed when needed and stored when not, creating different sound boxes as appropriate.
However, if an investor had purchased stock in the 30 components of the Dow in 1990 that were all deploying ERP, that investor would have benefited from a 35% decline in General and Administrative costs as a percentage of revenues, a five-fold increase in revenues as automation enabled massive scale, and an almost eight-fold increase in market cap.
During his trial, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Javid bought computer components in the Republic of Ireland on which no VAT was charged.
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Mr. BOWER: The binary explosive, if this is what in fact they were using, would be relatively easy to separate out, bring in two separate people, bring in two separate components, and mix it in the cabin of the plane.
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