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Alpha and Tandem's Himalaya servers are technically unmatched, but the market for such specialised high-end machines is small.
ECONOMIST: The Digital dilemma | The
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They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.
ECONOMIST: Manufacturing in Japan
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Mobile-phone networks are an important market, but a specialised one.
ECONOMIST: Superconductors are starting to become useful
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Although the first generating products are already on the market, most are pricey and specialised.
ECONOMIST: Fuel cells meet big business | The
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Many of the insurance companies and specialised institutions that used to buy these loans are now out of the market, replaced, Mr Hirsch says, by hedge and mutual funds.
ECONOMIST: Leveraged debt
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Another highly specialised exporter, Robin Veitch, has also found that being in a niche market provides only limited shelter.
ECONOMIST: Trial of strength
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This forces mid-market firms to build their own sourcing networks, and to become more specialised.
ECONOMIST: Mid-sized private-equity deals: When less is more | The
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The segment of the market most likely to be hit is notebook PCs, as the plants knocked out by the floods specialised in that particular size and format.
FORBES: Hard Drive Production Fall Could Hit PC Shipments