That made them, at best, suppliers of niche hardware.

这使得他们最多是利基的硬件供应商。

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Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware.

排名是不考虑供应商公司的全部收入，因为很多公司还有其他的业务线，比如硬件收入。

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The suppliers, who provide the hardware and software products to build the infrastructure that will host the new system

供应商，提供硬件和软件产品以构建将要安装新系统的基础

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Many smaller hardware suppliers showcase hardware -- including quite a few wireless modems for PCs or notebooks.

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Rival computer companies soon noticed that one of their main hardware suppliers was now competing against them as the Eee brand took off.

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As valuable as is the tinkering with thermodynamics and mechanics, the revolution that the hardware suppliers are complicit in enabling comes from the addition and full integration of microprocessors--making dumb hardware smart, and most importantly, adding the native ability to connect to communications networks via BlueTooth and Zigbee, LONworks, Ethernet and the Internet.

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