We view these as short-term issues and continue to see a powerful product cycle.
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To date, the iPad is a category killer at the very beginning of its product cycle.
Weak macro and product cycle timing (Win 8) are likely a factor, depressing sentiment and valuation.
We've added a lot of product back into the product cycle, particularly at Lincoln and Mercury.
"A couple of years ago, Hyundai went through a very powerful product cycle, " says Richter.
The first, consumer electronics, was product cycle driven, innovative new implements connecting everything to the Internet.
The business has yet to earn a nickel, but Fisher says that it is too early in the product cycle for profits.
Samsung wants to reduce its reliance on commodity semiconductors, or DRAMs, whose profits vary wildly depending on the ups and downs of the product cycle.
For better or for worse, never-ending litigation and sticky sales injunctions seem to becoming an unfortunate mainstay of the modern product cycle.
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It once took 85 days on average to turn around a product test, an eternity for a manufacturer with a short product cycle.
And most importantly, they're riding a new product cycle that's driven by Windows 7, the new version of Microsoft Office and new server software.
The lack of that guaranteed repeat business is a worry for longer-term bonds, which can have maturities ranging far beyond a given product cycle.
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In the past, new large pickups have represented a peak product cycle for GM, as these vehicles typically generate substantially more profit than smaller cars.
The S3 to S4 product cycle is less than a year.
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Under pressure to shrink overhead and telescope the new-product cycle, big companies are more likely to turn to universities or small companies to help develop ideas.
They have another product cycle due to be released soon, but Apple will need to show that it is still the innovator it was under Steve Jobs.
People like to say that Samsung is not innovative but reducing the product cycle from 24 months to 12 is big news and a huge innovation effort.
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Third, high technology companies have their own product cycle, which makes it difficult to predict whether a fallen high-technology angel is about to rise to paradise again or burn in hell.
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The U.S. marketing team would send to Japanese management product requirements based on real customer desires, but what came back in the next product cycle often failed to reflect this market orientation.
AnandTech brought some history to mix, declaring this was the first time AMD has matched NVIDIA within a single-GPU product cycle since the Radeon X1950 hit stores back in 1950 (jk: 2006).
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However, big hardware companies like Philips are trying to work on a new, much shorter product cycle and there is neither the time nor resources to invent in the way they used to.
We expect growth to resume as notebook growth should remain at moderate levels as notebooks have crossed the early growth phase of the product cycle and now starting to mature as an industry.
Over the past few years, Ryan has implemented an improved methodology for product delivery at Sprint which has reduced product cycle times and saved the company millions of dollars annually in rework and development costs.
His biggest concern is that "a very high percentage of our revenue is going to go off-patent within the next product cycle, " meaning in seven years, the time it takes to develop a new drug.
There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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Unlike Toshiba, which pioneered the laptop computer and has learnt to live with the jittery pace of development and capital expenditure of the computer industry, Hitachi still saunters to the 20-year product cycle of heavy-electrical machinery.
It's managed to reduce its losses despite a slowdown in Lumia sales -- falling from four million last quarter to 2.9 million now, but given that the company is at the end of a product cycle, that's hardly surprising.
It has already filed an injunction to ban the sale of eight of the patent-infringing Samsung devices in the U.S. If Apple succeeds in doing so, Samsung may see only a limited near-term impact considering that these devices are fairly old and are nearing the end of their product cycle.
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Even with the investor concerns that have mounted as of late we believe most agree that the company has brighter secular prospects than typical value tech. (But) the most recent product cycle has not driven the market share and new user growth we had anticipated, and we believe Apple may find it difficult to hit consensus expectations in the March and June quarters.
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