However, the world of electronics, and most certainly the world of prices for electronic components, is not a static one.
FORBES: Jeff Bezos Isn't Entirely Right About Amazon's New Kindle
Today, even the fastest of fast four-wheeled machines only connect to the world at large over 3G, another sign of the auto industry struggling to keep up with the world of consumer electronics.
Right after the New Year's bubbly goes flat, the world's electronics makers converge upon Las Vegas to reveal forthcoming digital wonders at the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
Within the world of consumer electronics, a smart marketing campaign can be relied upon to generate advance sales on the first batch of retail unit sales without relying on reviews or user feedback to drive demand.
FORBES: Microsoft Has A Problem With The Public's Expectation Of The Surface
It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
It's the uncertainty you've created by launching two essentially equal but incompatible formats onto the world of consumer electronics.
ENGADGET: Sony's BDP-S300 Blu-ray player now less than a PS3 HD
Intel's taking its 48-core processor and applying it to a field beyond academia: the world of mobile electronics.
ENGADGET: Take that linear algebra to go: Intel's 48-core chip targeting smartphones and tablets
But recently, the political scope that typically dodges the world of consumer electronics has found its sights set squarely on a field that we as gadget journalists cover.
ENGADGET: Made in America: could your next phone be homegrown? Mobile
Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Chief Executive Craig Barrett will shake up the world of consumer electronics next week when he opens his firm's fall Developer's Conference on Monday.
Like most every other figurehead in politics, Genachowski has had his fair share of outspoken proponents and critics, but he has embedded himself into the world of consumer electronics in a way that few other chairmen have.
ENGADGET: WSJ: FCC chairman Julius Genachowski will say tomorrow that he's stepping down
Back in the '90s, two companies from the opposite ends of the consumer electronics world -- giant Sony with its eMarker and startup Xenote with its iTag -- tried launching key fob devices that would identify songs on the radio, but neither got off the ground.
Mr Kotter, an expert on leadership at Harvard Business School, based his book almost exclusively on the late Konosuke Matsushita, a self-effacing entrepreneur who, with no education, no money and no apparent connections, somehow managed to build the world's biggest electronics firm from nothing, beginning in the 1920s.
Samsung Electronics will not promote its new tablet computer at one of the world's largest electronics shows after sales of the product were blocked in Germany.
The South Korean electronics conglomerate is the world's largest producer of NAND memory.
Circuit City filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, but all the court protection in the world is unlikely to save the electronics retailer.
Best Buy could have been the best-run electronics retailer in the world and it still would be going out of business.
The investigation will fan the flames of what is seen by many as a growing dispute about the proliferation of Chinese electronics companies across the world.
How about Apple, who is the most successful manufacturer and seller of consumer electronics in the world?
Last month, Japan's Sony, probably the best- known consumer electronics company in the world, announced that it would soon manufacture computers.
Richardson, TX - April 4, 2013 - Samsung Electronics announced today a unique relationship with Best Buy, the world's largest consumer electronics retailer, centered on retail innovation for customers to explore, purchase, activate and service the broadest portfolio of Samsung mobile products and accessories.
ENGADGET: Samsung partners with Best Buy to bring Experience Shops to 1,400 stores
Singapore's Flextronics (12, FLEX) is now the world's biggest electronics contract manufacturer, having just acquired competitor Solectron.
But in the Darwinian world of consumer electronics, lower costs trump technological prowess.
FORBES: Hon Hai and Foxconn Renegotiate Investment in Sharp, Shares Rally
Singapore's Flextronics (12, FLEX ) is now the world's biggest electronics contract manufacturer, having just acquired competitor Solectron (nyse: SLR - news - people ).
Two of the world's biggest electronics makers, Hitachi and Toshiba, are currently competing against each other to come up with an alternative, most likely to be micro fuel cells.
In announcing the winners of what it billed as the "world's largest high school research competition, " Intel cited Khare for recognizing "the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices" as the world rapidly adopts portable electronics.
His ambitious plans for a new computer lab for MIT, the world's leading electronics research university, combine both elements to create a complex of crazy buildings clad in traditional brick with steel-clad classrooms and meeting rooms.
Foxconn, in its growing heft as the world's largest electronics contract company, was also getting more difficult for Apple to control, with incidents such as changing component sourcing without notifying Apple, people familiar with the matter said.
WSJ: Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
Although little known in the West until a spate of factory suicides in 2009 brought the company notoriety, Foxconn makes components, parts and assembles devices for many of the world's largest electronics companies including Hewlett-Packard Co.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
The launch of Europe's first dedicated channel comes as key actors prepare to meet in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world's leading technology fairs.
Investors chose to focus on the outlook given by Philips, which sells medical equipment, consumer electronics and is the world's biggest lighting maker.
应用推荐