The phrase "hardware industry" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to businesses that manufacture and sell physical items used in computing, such as processors, memory cards, and motherboards. For example: "The hardware industry has experienced tremendous growth in the past decade due to increasing demand for computer components."
The increase in direct purchases underscores a couple of shifts in the hardware industry.
While software companies led the last round of consolidation, the hardware industry now appears poised for its own reshaping.
Fusion-io has come up with a play that analysts consider rather unusual in the hardware industry.
The hardware industry is dominated by relatively few major manufacturers, whereas software comes from a wide range of sources, from large commercial organisations down to individual developers.
At the same time, it is dangling as much as $2.75 billion in incentives in front of chip makers to entice them to build India's first semiconductor manufacturing plant, an important step in building a domestic hardware industry.
Sources in the hardware industry told the Guardian they expect the retailer to offer an 18cm (7in) device, priced to compete with Amazon's updated Kindle Fire and the newest version of Google's Nexus 7, and made by a Chinese manufacturer.
Her father was a manufacturers' representative in Teaneck, N.J., to the paint and hardware industries.
Analysts kept their chins up, as disappointing news from a computer hardware industry-leader and ever-dueling satellite radio companies dragged down tech stocks at the end of the week.
Amazingly, the pet industry is the seventh largest retail industry in the U.S., exceeding the jewelry, candy, toy and hardware industries.
Important ones include: the high cost of Internet access, protection given to local computer hardware industries, and regulations in the telecommunications and related businesses.
Finally, we underline two major evolutions in the software and hardware industries that open new application domains for the concurrency theory community.
