Hardware manufacturing and sales are about supply chains, parts, factories, physical distribution, and consumer marketing–all things that Google has little or no experience with…

硬件生产和销售无非就是供应链、零件、工程、实物分销和客户市场——Google在所有这些领域几乎毫无经验…

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Founded in 2008, Haiyan Changde Hardware Manufacturing Co. , Ltd. specializes in manufacturing carriage bolts, hex bolts and guard bolts with standards of DIN, ANSI and GB and non-standard bolts.

海盐常盛五金制造有限公司成立于2008年，主要生产德、美制、国标马车螺栓和外六角螺栓以及护兰螺栓和非标螺栓。

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Others might want to wait until the local hardware store buys a 3-D printer and begins to offer one-off manufacturing services on demand.

其他人也许想要等到当地的五金店有了3-D打印机，他们去那里用自己的订单进行一次性的生产。

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The hardware manufacturing community welcomed Brazos, which launched with about 150 design wins, and it looks as if they are similarly enthusiastic about Llano, which has already garnered 145.

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For example, if outsourcing hardware manufacturing provides IBM (NYSE:IBM) a cost advantage, it also does for its competitors, such as the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell Computers (NYSE:DELL), and EMC (NYSE:EMC) that will follow suit.

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Even two decades after the Apollo moon mission, all the energies of hardware manufacturing firms were focused on semiconductors (like DRAMs or CPUs), color televisions, cars, Walkmans, CDs, VHS recorders, and a new consumer item called the personal computer.

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