Already, Italy's Fiat plans to build many models from a single chassis and sell them to developing countries from Bolivia to Bangladesh.

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Nortel claims its Shasta 5000 BSN for aggregated DSL or cable offers services such as network-based firewalls, virtual private networking, and traffic engineering for several thousand subscribers over a single chassis.

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The real head-scratcher is the Daish? 2.0 Dual PC (shown after the jump), which as the name implies, sports a duo of networked PCs within a single vertical chassis.

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Available in single, dual or 3-way SLI in the SHIFT or single and dual configurations in the F131 or single card in the Potenza, all of these systems utilize the unique chassis design where the motherboard is rotated 90 degrees to exhaust hot air out the top of the chassis.

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Inside the ultraminimalist exterior lies a miraculous machine: The chassis hangs from a floating seismic platform with four-point spring suspension using a single piece of milled solid aluminum subassembly as its foundation.

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The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.

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