Smelting, metal products and machine-making fell, as a share of industrial output, from 20% in 1991 to 15% in 1996.
His company is one of a growing number of Chinese corporations using Hollywood's marketing machine to promote their products to a global audience.
Dollars, guns and all the wondrous products of science and the machine will not be enough.
Late last year he brought in two veteran Texas Instruments managers to focus efforts on nearer-term products, such as microelectronic machine parts maybe several thousand nanometers across, to bring in some research money.
While both companies have common roots in the computing business, Apple under Mr. Jobs has built itself into a profit machine through a string of hit consumer electronics products, starting with the iPod digital media player, followed by the iPhone, plus the iPad earlier this year.
For many years the company dominated the copy-machine market, but its leaders failed to pay attention to disruptive technologies and new products, such as fax machines and digital copiers, which undermined the entire copy-machine market.
The prince also unveiled a plaque to commemorate his visit before speaking to four year 11 boys who had campaigned for fair trade products to be included in the school's vending machine.
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The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
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Car parts, machine tools and Harley-Davidson motorcycles are only a few of its products.
The Business Smart series inkjets, like all other Brother products, offer free technical support for the life of the machine.
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Microsoft, according to Quentin Hardy of The New York Times, is also into machine learning, promising to incorporate it in the near future in mainstream products such as Excel and Outlook.
IT'S OWL, a new initiative by machine builders, car-part suppliers and electronics companies, enlists universities to add intelligence to regional products, like Kemper's smart kneader.
After the stylist and editor Giovanna Battaglia took a spin and the machine offered up some eye shadow based on her selection, a representative from Chanel offered to send her some more products the next day at her office.
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