Thanks to the fragmentation of production, Chinese workers are doing the low-skill parts of producing computers.

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Grid solutions can only be used in problems that can be broken up into millions of tiny parts, where tons of small computers can each chew on their own little piece of the puzzle.

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Simulations of crashes with bodies and body parts comprising 100, 000 of those tiny cubes take computers 24 hours to calculate.

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Gathered in cramped six-person "cells, " they assemble computers from batches of parts that arrive via a computer-directed conveyor system overhead.

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Apple built its first personal computers with some of the parts from Atari's early video game machines.

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Phones, tablets, notebook computers and other portable devices have become critical parts of many daily lives.

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Cyber-warfare has increasingly been waged against the computers that control the grid and other vital parts of our economy's electronic underbelly.

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The third application is the transmission of technical information from computers monitoring the car's mechanical parts direct to the manufacturer or dealer.

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