This could be a problem, especially when servers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system offer industrial-strength computing for the first time.

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Customers consist of original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors who serve numerous end-markets, including communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics, automotive, and education.

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These innovations are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.

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NXP's product solutions are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.

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It manufactures high performance mixed signal and standard products, which cater to automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications.

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Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").

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This work includes results from the "Normally-off Computing" project funded by Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization).

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But it has only been in the past two years or so that the combination of computing and networking technologies became inexpensive enough to be cost-effective on industrial sewing machines.

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