2018 Best Hardware & Equipment Companies
Apple Inc.
Ask Siri to name the most successful company in the world and it might respond: Apple. And it's not just out of familial pride. Apple consistently ranks highly in profit, revenue, market capitalization, and consumer cachet. In 2018, the company...
Dell Inc.
Dell Technologies made its name as a supplier of built-to-order personal computers. Now, as a bigger, more mature company, Dell wants to build-to-order answers to its customers' IT needs. It remains a top PC company, #3 behind Lenovo and HP Inc....
Hewlett-Packard Company
Operating in 170 countries with a network of more than 250,000 channel partners, HP uses the power of ideas to put technology to work for everyone, everywhere. HP’s slogan is “HP invents, engineers, and delivers solutions that amaze.” The firm’s...
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco Systems makes the network gear -- routers, switches, and servers as well as software -- that moves information around the internet and corporate networks. The company, which has dominated the market for internet protocol-based networking...
Intel Corporation
Intel Corp. is the brains of the operation. One the biggest computer chip companies, Intel controls roughly 90% of the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of desktop, notebook, and server computers. It has dominated the PC chip...
International Business Machines Corporation
International Business Machines (IBM) bets that cognition is the ignition for growth. The company is investing in it what is calls cognitive computing systems, led by the Watson artificial intelligence platform, that help customers analyze...
Xerox Corporation
Today’s Xerox Corp. is not a copy of its former self. With some 1.5 million devices under its management, Xerox remains a leading seller of printers and copiers as well as technology for managing documents and other information services. The...
Qualcomm Incorporated
QUALCOMM is a leading designer and supplier of computer chips that mobile phone and wireless carriers depend on to get signals straight. The company pioneered the commercialization of the code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology used in...
NCR Corporation
NCR’s products don’t “ka-ching” anymore, but the company still registers with people and money. Born in the 1880s as National Cash Register, NCR is a leading maker of ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, bar code scanners, and related printer...
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Texas Instruments sticks to basics -- producing analog and embedded processors, the workhorses of the industry. The company’s analog chips manage power in electronic equipment and its embedded processors handle specific tasks in electronic...
