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The bounds of the computer industry can be drawn widely to include its components especially the semiconductor (“chip”), which is now an essential component of many other items of equipment, and sometimes its intercommunications. At times the electronics industry at large has appeared to be converging into a homogeneous entity, based on the chip (this is often called “convergence”); at other times it has broken up into segments. Here a narrower definition is generally adopted.
