But he said there had been a rise in the popularity of hardware hacking recently, thanks to cheap PCs and components.
"While still a nascent market, with hype outpacing the technical realities, the speed of development and rise in buyer interest are pressing hardware, software and service providers to offer easier-to-use tools and materials that produce consistently high-quality results".
SAP's results were a stark contrast with last month's showing by Oracle, which reported a 7 percent rise in software revenues and a 10 percent drop in hardware revenues.
In 1980s, there was a rise in efforts to create application-specific hardware that could evaluate large numbers of possible chessboards at faster rate.
In 2005, Thomas Friedman asserted that the rise in cheap access to connectivity and hardware in developing countries was flattening the world.
Fueled by gains in hardware stocks and selected Internet stocks, the technology-sensitive Nasdaq Composite Index rose a healthy 3%.
Revenue in hardware was $1.3 billion.
You need to encrypt that in hardware.
What's the differentiator in hardware?
Image Processing in Hardware (2007).
