To pass this unit, please study the 16 vocabulary words below.
- Adobe
- AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
- Amazon
- Apple
- Cisco
- Dell
- HP (Hewlett-Packard)
- Intel
- IBM (International Business Machines)
- Microsoft
- Nvidia
- Oracle
- Symantec
- Western Digital
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San Jose, California multimedia software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschk; known for Flash, Photoshop and PDF software technologies
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"Our Computer Design and Layout class professor advised us that most industry professionals use Adobe software."
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Santa Clara, California company founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders; known as the second largest manufacturer of x86 processors and graphics processors
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"AMD has a strange history of competition, cooperation, and litigation with the x86 platform creator Intel."
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Seattle company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and specializing in mail order and cloud computing
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"Amazon.com started off by selling books, but now they sell everything from food to server space."
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Cupertino, California based computer company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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"Apple is a large consumer IT company known for its quality products with innovative design and usability concepts."
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San Jose, California company founded by Len Bosack, Sandy Lerner, and Richard Troiano in 1984 which sells networking and telecommunications products and services
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"In 2011, Cisco Systems announced it would shut down its consumer electronics devision."
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Round Rock, Texas computer manufacturer founded by in 1984; known for its direct-sales approach, low cost, and highly configurable product offerings
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"Benjamin Curtis, the popular "Dude, you're getting a Dell" spokesperson was fired in 2003 after he was arrested on drug possession charges in New York City."
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Menlo Park, California company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg which calls itself a "social network" and focuses on advertising and interpersonal communication
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"Over 2 billion people use Facebook to communicate with friends and family."
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Mountain View, California company founded by Larry Page and Sergei Brin in 1998; known for their search technology, Android mobile OS, web-based productivity tools, and cloud hosting services
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"Google's unofficial company motto is "Don't be evil", a phrase coined by engineer Paul Buchheit."
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Palo Alto, California startup founded in a one-car garage in 1939 by two engineering students; known (at one time, anyway) for producing high quality computers, printers, and related office peripherals
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"HP specializes in manufacturing computers, printers, networking devices, and related services."
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Santa Clara, California company founded in 1968 by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce; known for manufacturing microprocessors and other high tech products
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"Intel invented the 4004, the world's first microprocessor in 1971."
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Armonk, New York based company founded by Charles Ranlett Flint in 1911; known for building large scale business machines of nearly every type, from typewriters to mainframes to personal computers
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"The man worked for IBM for so long he could remember the days when everyone wore white lab coats to work."
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Redmond, Washington software company founded by Bill Gates and Larry Allen in 1977; known for Windows operating system, Office productivity software, and Azure cloud computing platform
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"The college student wanted to work for Microsoft because it was the biggest and richest software company in the region."
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Santa Clara, California company founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in 1993; known for producing GPUs (graphical processing units) for gaming, cryptocurrency mining, and media creation purposes
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"NVIDIA is very popular with gamers and responsible for the GeForce line of graphics cards."
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Redwood Shores, California company founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison and known for developing database software and supply chain management software
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"Oracle Corporation has the best overall reputation for scalability and reliability in the database industry."
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Mountain View, California software company founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix; specializing in artificial intelligence and antivirus software
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"Symantec is famous for their antivirus software which protects computers from malware."
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San Jose, California company founded in 1970 by Alvin B. Phillips; the world's largest manufacturer of computer storage devices
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"In 2017, Western Digital was the first company to ship a 14 terabyte hard drive."