We've added a lot of product back into the product cycle, particularly at Lincoln and Mercury.
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.
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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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.
Responding to the imperative of the product marketing cycle, the company is on to a new narrative and different combinations of ingeniously engineered plastic parts.
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.
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.
Device companies like Apple and Samsung are scared of this because they prefer the product innovation cycle.
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Samsung, and competitors like HTC, have reduced the product development cycle to 12 months and Apple simply is not ready for it.
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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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The product life cycle of many models can be measured in weeks, at a time when more than 87 million Americans now own smartphones, according to a comScore report issued in November.
Having visibility into and control of products while they are in digital form allows companies to make decisions that have maximum impact on the cost to design, source and retire products earlier in the product development cycle.
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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We are the only company to comprehensively report greenhouse gas emissions for every product we make, taking into account the entire product life cycle.
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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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.
In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
Looking ahead, the company expects to see margins contract further in the next quarter as it looks to launch a number of lower margin new products ahead of the holiday season in what is going to be the broadest product refresh cycle in its history.
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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The S3 to S4 product cycle is less than a year.
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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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The first, consumer electronics, was product cycle driven, innovative new implements connecting everything to the Internet.
To date, the iPad is a category killer at the very beginning of its product cycle.
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.
When a company has to take back a product at the end of its life cycle, it thinks differently.
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 remain focused on operational excellence, expanding our product offerings and managing our business efficiently throughout the cycle.
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