Figure 2 shows unit demand growth and contraction trends for various HDD applications from 2008 projected through 2012.
One WindTamer customer is the U.S. Army, which purchased last year a mobile trailer-mounted turbine and renewable energy storage unit containing the Power on Demand system that the military would be able to move around even in battle zones.
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Weakness in the performance chemical unit had to do with weak market demand across the globe.
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The South Korean phonemaker was also boosted by strong demand at its display panel unit.
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One likely reason for this is a mixture of cooling North American demand combined with actual YoY unit volume declines in Europe.
General Dynamics is counting on its Gulfstream business jets to compensate for any downturn in military demand, and its networking unit counts customers as far afield from the Pentagon as T.
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The Times gave several examples of buildings where an apartment owner will see the taxes on their unit triple and quadruple forcing buyers to demand lower prices when purchasing the property.
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Lower prices can help to further stimulate demand and lead to higher Kindle unit shipments.
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However with recovery in 2003 demand swelled to over 30% unit growth in 2003.
Maybe, but developing the packaging division will mean a heavy demand for investment capital from a unit with low returns.
There will likely be a significant drop-off in demand for the munitions that the unit supplies to the Army and Marine Corps, but GD has built up a strong base of support in Congress for protecting its core vehicle franchises.
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While other applications for HDDs (enterprise and consumer uses) seem to expand and contract with economic and supply trends, HDDs for personal computers, and in particular for notebook computers, experienced a steady decline in demand (from about 28% unit shipment growth in 2008 to a projected 5% decline in shipments in 2012).
This morning, as I noted in an earlier post, Citigroup downgraded shares of Nvidia (NVDA), at least in part in anticipation that expectations for 2011 tablet unit sales are at risk of over-estimating demand.
The current unit, within an ordinary school, has struggled to meet demand.
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.
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Investment research firm ISI today trimmed its forecast for overall PC unit growth to 6%, from 10%, largely due to weakness in consumer demand.
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The unit, at Bath's Royal National Hospital, shut on Sunday following a drop in demand for services.
We have lowered near-term iPhone unit estimates, but we have increased our FY 2013 iPhone estimates as we anticipate very strong demand for an LTE iPhone 5 ramping during the December quarter.
On Tuesday, in fact, a pair of Wall Street analyst trimmed their projections for 2011 PC unit sales, in both cases blaming the reduced outlook at least in part on cannibalization of demand by tablets.
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Homex impressed him because the demand for low cost housing in Mexico is virtually unlimited: there is a four million unit housing shortage.
Although TV unit growth in 2013 is expected to remain in the single digits, as panel sizes rise the demand for the total area of TFT-LCD is estimated to rise around 10%.
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Put another way, because a weaker yen equals a stronger dollar, Toyota can demand fewer dollars from its American customers to achieve the same amount of yen in profit per unit.
He believes that positive supply-side forces will continue to damp the impact of strong demand on output prices and that productivity gains will continue to damp the effect of higher wages on unit labor costs.
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