Computers (Global Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the global computers industry. The paper gives a snapshot summary, with additional sections on the industry's development, organisation and structure, current conditions and its leading companies and countries.

Global Industry Overview: Computers

The industry produces digital computers that may be in such configurations as mainframe computers, super computers, and personal computers. This diverse class of machines shares these common abilities:
  • they store the processing programs and data necessary to execute programs;
  • they can be freely programmed in accordance user requirements;
  • they perform mathematical computations specified by the user; and
  • they execute – without human intervention – a processing program requiring them to modify execution by logical decision during a processing run.

Industry Snapshot

Japan, the United States, and Europe are the three mature world...

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