Canon sold 5.9 million SLR cameras in 2010.
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Software firms typically make fatter profit margins than hardware firms. The best ones easily hit 30%; electronics firms struggle to reach 5%.
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The first shuttles were controlled by a computer running on only 500 kb of RAM; it was upgraded to 1 MB only in 1991.
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The FAA requires most planes flying today to monitor only 88 parameters on their black boxes, generally once or twice per second, but data recorders on modern commercial jetliners may track as many as 3,000 data points, including the status of every system on the aircraft, the positions of cockpit controls, and pressure and temperature readings from fuel tanks and hydraulic systems.
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Only 7 of the world’s best-performing 100 tech companies are based in Europe.
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