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December 21, 2004

China? Bring it on!

Austin-based Dell, Inc. heaved a mighty yawn over the recent sale of IBM's computer manufacturing business to the Chinese entity, Lenovo. This NY Times article does a good job of reviewing Dell's remarkable story and current business plan, and includes such interesting tidbits as this:

Five years ago, it took two [Dell factory] workers 14 minutes to build a PC; it now takes a single worker roughly five minutes to do the same.

Posted by Tom at December 21, 2004 8:04 AM |

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