This year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) was a feast for the senses. Tech toys abounded in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and intermingled with the system manufacturers was a dramatically larger number of chip and software vendors. In a sense, this mix of companies is unsurprising; CES is, after all, a convenient way for suppliers and their customers to efficiently "do business." But unlike past years, the system "building-block" companies generally weren't hidden away in meeting rooms and hotel suites far from the Las Vegas Convention Center. Instead, they were front and center with their own booths, marketing their brand names to consumers.
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