New England has long been a center of hardware manufacturing.

At the same demonstration, Intel officials said they expected hardware manufacturing to begin around the end of 2010.

The deal moves Softbank into hardware manufacturing for apparently the first time.

They decided instead to focus on hardware manufacturing.

Indeed, it uses Japanese subcontractors to do virtually all of its hardware manufacturing.

Chennai has a diversified economic base anchored by the automobile, software services, hardware manufacturing, health care and financial services industries.

Today, only Stanley Works remains of the glory days of hardware manufacturing, and without the industrial base, the city is getting progressively poorer.

The word on the streets of Galway last week was that hardware manufacturing with its 800 jobs had gone by the wayside.

The areas with the stingiest packages were professional and business services as well as computer software and hardware manufacturing.

Analysts say I.B.M. will continue to look for opportunities to outsource its hardware manufacturing.