Quill said some firms are turning to cross-asset trading because the high frequency trading (HFT) business is now dominated by ultra high frequency trading firms whose massive investments in sophisticated hardware like FPGAs has made it difficult for smaller players to compete.

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This is an extraordinarily impressive facility, where workers are instructed on everything from the installation of sophisticated energy hardware and software to the basics of current and resistance.

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There's a few problems like no software, a lack of bandwidth and doubts over the accuracy of a tablet to replicate such a sophisticated piece of hardware.

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Specialized switches and routers continue to handle other data-passing chores, but they don't need to be as sophisticated as most current hardware.

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By making the capability of live streaming as accessible as possible to our fans, straight from a player's console without the need for any additional hardware or sophisticated setups, we are empowering our fans to share their multiplayer experiences.

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Nokia's Lumia 800 is a sophisticated and capable smartphone that melds its hardware beautifully with the Windows Phone OS. Whether it's the best phone for you right now depends on certain factors.

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This hardware will have to come from sophisticated, mainly Western, armies.

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The company lets gamers play visually sophisticated games through a Web browser, without the need for specialized hardware or graphics circuits.

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He envisions a sophisticated regime that sanctions certain limbs and settings for sporting events like the Olympics, where the goal is hardware and software that approximates, but will not surpass, the function of natural limbs.

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