So, analysts say, the efficiency gains appear to be what I.B.M. needs simply to keep pace in the increasingly cost-conscious computer industry as it matures and hardware technology, in particular, increasingly becomes a standard commodity.
Since multiformat support is just a matter of getting the software right, what tends to happen is that a standard, commodity firmware emerges for these devices that just works for just about everything, and the formats vanish into the background.
Thrivent is in a pretty standard commodity market: It sells mutual funds.
Our implementation of the FDM relies on standard commodity components even for networking.
We present performance benchmarks for the software processor array implemented on standard commodity microprocessors.
We denote the effective output in units of standard commodity by λ y, where y denotes the nominal output quantities, and λ denotes the quality measure, i.e., the MRS of the output commodity with respect to the standard commodity.
