These two dead technologies have proved to be substantial obstacles for the firm in its fight to generate profits, but as the deal with Microsoft evidenced, they are committed to reworking their business model to succeed in the new environment.

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These technologies, combined with the major refresh of production storage arrays that occurred over the past two years, has resulted in owned but unused capacity that can now be absorbed.

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These technologies are fundamental to the world's growing image sensor industry, with sales of over two billion units annually, and found in almost every consumer electronics device including smart phones, automobiles, tablets, televisions, gaming platforms, medical equipment and digital cameras.

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