The Marketplace for Computer Hardware

question 46

Multiple Choice

The marketplace for computer hardware:

• A)has become increasingly concentrated in top firms.
• B)has expanded to include a wide variety of start-up and mobile-computing firms.
• C)has moved significantly to Asian firms.
• D)has been decimated by mobile and cloud computing.
• E)has begun moving away from blade servers.

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