Like Ford Motor, GM is moving toward so-called global architectures-- single sets of components for vehicles worldwide--which will boost its economies of scale.
Fisker Automotive has said the incidents arose from single, faulty components.
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Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
The only visible components are a single capacitive button, an LED and a micro-USB charging port.
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Meanwhile mixed signal devices proliferate with both analog and digital components on a single chip.
This would add an entirely new level of challenge to both the single and multi-player components of the game.
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The Archer module consists of the UltraGig 6400 single chip transmitter with its intelligent beam-forming 60GHz RF transceiver, embedded antenna array, and WirelessHD 1.1 compliant network processor as well as all necessary external components on a single, flex- print cable module.
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Upon cracking open the shell, which was apparently impossible to do without shattering the screen, iFixit found a single assembly that housed all the components.
Long-term, single source contracts for these core components are fine if you are willing to accept the risk of being defined by the actions (good and bad) of your partner.
True, Mass Effect 3 had multiplayer components, but it remains primarily a single-player experience.
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One single QBotix robot can manage 300 kilowatts worth of panels, reducing components, maintenance and cost but it also gives the solar farms another benefit, reduces the cost of construction.
But, the MMO components of the game seem bolted on to a solid, compelling single-player game.
The underlying point being somewhere in the process the components of a story suffer when placed in the hands of a single person, thus debunking the picturesque model of new journalists.
Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website and deliver them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream.
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Secondly, the detection of multiple planets demolishes once and for all the lingering doubts of some astronomers that the single planets found around other stars are not planets at all, but small, faint components in otherwise conventional binary star systems.
And while Ryton makes just a single model, Peugeot's French plants produce at least two, many of which share components to cut costs.
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This downsizing is already sign-posted by U.S. inability to compete in trade, where a single company in China employs a million people produces the vast share of products for Apple and components for Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, Intel and Motorola.
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