"An increasing number of capital-intensive Korean firms are positioning themselves to assemble high-tech components in China".
Driving systems can range from hundreds of dollars for simple aids to thousands for high-tech components.
Spending on machinery and equipment, mainly computers and related high-tech components, grew by 19.5percentt annually.
Charles Watkins, Wittnauer's president, said new high-tech components should keep the clock accurate for many years to come.
Many factories in China assemble products that require high-tech components from Japan that use rare earths.
Deena des Rioux is one of the invited artists, and her aim is to "effect a symbiosis between human and high-tech components".
Early mornings and on weekends, riders in skintight racing jerseys speed around Central Park and Prospect Park and show of their latest high-tech components.
"Now we know that it pays to focus on quality and on growing sectors of the market that rely on high-tech components".
The bulk of the value accrues to the owners of the brand in America and the makers of its high-tech components in South Korea and Japan.
Apple has demonstrated 16 of these programs, including an instant message program, an eBay auction tracker, medical references and a touch-sensitive musical keyboard; the best of them exploit the iPhone's orientation sensor, wireless technologies and other high-tech components.
