We elected to use the CLC de novo assembler as it has performed well in a number of previous Illumina-based transcriptome assemblies [ 25, 26] and is the assembler of choice in [ 22].
It includes both the GCC compiler (a highly optimizing C compiler that is the standard compiler on Linux, and also is the core of DJGPP, which was used to build the DOS versions of Doom and Quake) and GNU assembler, as well as the A68K assembler (which was historically the assembler of choice for most calcuatlor assembly programmers).
Hon Hai Precision Industry, the main listed entity of the parent Foxconn Technology Group, is the key assembler of Apple's iPhones.
China's very strong manufacturing power has catapulted it into success, from constructing simple consumer goods, to being the premier assembler of iPhones, and now to the development of very inexpensive and efficient solar panels.
Some manufacturers from Asia benefit from a weak yuan because China is the final assembler of high value-added products made elsewhere and ultimately destined for the West.
For instance, Foxconn is the system assembler of Xiaomi's smartphone Mi Note, featuring a 5.7″ FHD display; however, the display panel, camera module, and application processor are developed and supplied by Japan Display Inc. (JDI), Primax and Qualcomm respectively, and Xiaomi contracts them for these resources rather than Foxconn during the planning and design stage of the smartphone development.
Most media coverage of tech companies encourages us to forget that the vast majority of their employees are not, in fact, coders in Silicon Valley: they're the suicidal assemblers of your phone, the call-center support staff, the delivery drivers and the smiling shop floor staff who make up the majority of Apple's workforce.
Lorraine Luk: Last year, Foxconn was the sole assembler of the iPhone 5S, but it only made a small portion of the iPhone 5C as another Taiwanese contract maker Pegatron was assigned to be the major assembler for the cheaper model.
Foxconn is best known as the assembler of the iPhone, and it relies on Apple for more than half of its business.
But, the fundamentals of the mobile device market have apparently changed dramatically this year, and Foxconn is likely to be the company most harmed as the assembler of those devices.
