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Top manufactures in computer hardware

Top Computer Manufacturing Companies of the world include some of the most renowned
computer producing brands such as IBM, Apple and Wipro.

IBM

International Business Machine Corporation which is popularly known as IBM is one of the
biggest name among all the Top Computer Manufacturing Companies. The company was
founded in the year 1889 and is presently headquartered in New York. The company
manufactures and sells computers and other related parts.

APPLE

Another important name in the competitive sphere of Top Computer Manufacturing


Companies is Apple. Apple Inc. is a popular multinational corporation manufacturing computers
since 1976. It is headquartered in California. Till 2006, it was known by the name of Apple
Computer.

Compaq

Compaq is also an important computer manufacturing company which has been doing successful
business since 1982. It enjoyed the status of being the largest producer of computer systems for
many years. Now it has merged up with Hewlett-Packard.

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation is another important competitor which is the first company to produce x86
series of microprocessor used in personal computers. The company was founded in 1968 and is
headquartered in California, with sub-branches almost in every part of the world.

Lenovo

Lenovo group Limited is the third largest computer manufacturing company in the world and the
largest in Asia Pacific. The company was established in 1984 and is headquartered in North
California, United States.

Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity,


particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were
designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), which led the
market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research. He then
took over the supercomputer market with his new designs, holding the top spot in
supercomputing for five years (1985–1990). In the 1980s a large number of smaller
competitors entered the market, in parallel to the creation of the minicomputer market a
decade earlier, but many of these disappeared in the mid-1990s "supercomputer market
crash".

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Today, supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by
"traditional" companies such as Cray, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had purchased
many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience. As of May 2010, the Cray Jaguar
is the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Mainframe Computer

A mainframe (also known as "big iron") is a high-performance computer used for large-
scale computing purposes that require greater availability and security than a smaller-
scale machine can offer. Historically, mainframes have been associated with centralized
rather than distributed computing. IBM emphasizes that their mainframes can be used to
serve distributed users and smaller servers in a computing network.

Workstation

A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific


applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly
connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term
workstation has also been used to refer to a mainframe computer terminal or a PC
connected to a network.

Historically, workstations had offered higher performance than personal computers,


especially with respect to CPU and graphics, memory capacity and multitasking
capability. They are optimized for the visualization and manipulation of different types of
complex data such as 3D mechanical design, engineering simulation (e.g. computational
fluid dynamics), animation and rendering of images, and mathematical plots. Consoles
consist of a high resolution display, a keyboard and a mouse at a minimum, but also offer
multiple displays, graphics tablets, 3D mice (devices for manipulating and navigating 3D
objects and scenes), etc. Workstations are the first segment of the computer market to
present advanced accessories and collaboration tools.

Presently, the workstation market is highly commoditized and is dominated by large PC


vendors, such as Dell and HP, selling Microsoft Windows/Linux running on Intel
Xeon/AMD Opteron. Alternative UNIX based platforms are provided by Apple Inc., Sun
Microsystems, and SGI.

Laptop
A laptop is a personal computer designed for mobile use[1]. A laptop integrates most of
the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing
device (a touchpad, also known as a trackpad, and/or a pointing stick) and speakers into a
single unit. A laptop is powered by mains electricity via an AC adapter, and can be used
away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery. A laptop battery in new condition
typically stores enough energy to run the laptop for three to five hours, depending on the
computer usage, configuration and power management settings. When the laptop is
plugged into the mains, the battery charges, whether or not the computer is running.

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Personal computer
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities,
and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be
operated directly by an end user with no intervening computer operator.

A personal computer may be a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet PC, or a handheld PC


(also called a palmtop). The most common microprocessors in personal computers are
x86-compatible CPUs. Software applications for personal computers include word
processing, spreadsheets, databases, Web browsers and e-mail clients, games, and myriad
personal productivity and special-purpose software applications. Modern personal
computers often have connections to the Internet, allowing access to the World Wide
Web and a wide range of other resources.

A PC may be used at home or in an office. Personal computers may be connected to a


local area network (LAN), either by a cable or a wireless connection.

While early PC owners usually had to write their own programs to do anything useful
with the machines, today's users have access to a wide range of commercial and non-
commercial software, which is provided in ready-to-run or ready-to-compile form. Since
the 1980s, Microsoft and Intel have dominated much of the personal computer market,
first with MS-DOS and then with the Wintel platform.

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