The phrase "a maker of hardware" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person or company that produces physical devices or equipment, particularly in technology or manufacturing contexts.
Example: "As a maker of hardware, the company has established a reputation for producing high-quality computer components."
Alternatives: "a producer of hardware" or "a manufacturer of hardware."
But today the game for Sega, at least as a maker of hardware, may be over.
Brocade, a maker of hardware used in data storage networks, has been hurt by the economic downturn.
Although Sun makes most of its money by selling server computers and storage devices, it is not only a maker of hardware.
Mr. Weiss, 33, is the assistant counsel at Atex Media Solutions, a maker of hardware and software for the publishing industry in Bedford, Mass.
As Matt Burns of TechCrunch wrote earlier this month, GoPro wants to position itself not only as a maker of hardware but as a service that people can use to store and share their footage.
Cisco Systems, continuing its torrid pace of acquisitions, said it would buy PixStream, a maker of hardware and software for the delivery of digital video over high-speed networks, for $369 million in stock.
Mr. Hoberman, 28, works at the Sargent Manufacturing Company, a maker of door hardware, in New Haven.
Enraptured by the latest whizzy chip or clever bit of software, California's engineers paid little attention to IBM's plodding transformation in the 1990s from a maker of computer hardware into a seller of business services.
But these companies, they say, lack the extensive software assets and expertise of Oracle, the database and business applications giant, which acquired Sun Microsystems, a maker of both hardware and software, in a $7 billion deal that was completed in 2010.
Mr. Whitmore, the chief technology officer of Seagate, a maker of computer hardware, said he and his wife were inspired to get involved by his father, an orthopedic specialist who had studied under Dr. Ponseti.
SafeWeb, a maker of networking hardware in Emeryville, Calif., that has drawn some financing from the Central Intelligence Agency, recently provided free software called Triangle Boy that protected Internet users' identities by routing their browsing through SafeWeb's server.
