Sentences with phrase «significant infrastructure costs»

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Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

The potential for savings is significant for U.S. banks, although they will need to get past a merely average tech infrastructure to deliver smartphone banking ubiquity and leverage their relative ease of cost improvements.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Bigoray Facilities Owned 100 % W.I. by Pulse: As most of the required infrastructure for the Bigoray EOR is in place, the miscible flood project requires a relatively small investment per Nisku Reef providing massive upside without the risk and significant cost of an extensive horizontal drilling program.

«To drive sales, management invested heavily in building a geographic footprint, IT platform and logistics infrastructure that resulted in a significant fixed cost base that was not supported by the level of revenue that was being generated.»

Nature - based approaches (also known as green infrastructure) to climate change adaptation can provide significant cost savings compared to manmade solutions.

Not only does it cost more, but it requires significant investment in infrastructure to build and upfit kitchens and training to equip staff to prepare it.

The report adds: «It would also offer significant environmental benefits by reducing and reshaping infrastructure needs, as well as offering opportunities to price more appropriately for environmental costs and reduce emissions.»

And while the cost to fund these projects is significant; transforming our government's infrastructure while we have the chance will provide lasting value to our county and leave a legacy for future generations to build upon.

Reliable, fit for purpose transport infrastructure can positively impact on this significant cost by facilitating uptake of greater levels of active and sustainable travel.

A wholesale transfer of capital from the wealthy to the people through nationalisation of infrastructure assets is unlikely, but there are other areas at the margins where Ed's team are actively considering significant market intervention in the interests of redistribution (or «solving the cost of living crisis», as Labour's tired mantra has it).

All applications are peer - reviewed and the granted projects receive access to sequencing infrastructure and significant funding to support the cost for sequencing reagents.

The significant need for network infrastructure and IT staffing upgrades raises a big question: How much will it cost to meet these needs?

With student loan debt recently hitting $ 1.3 trillion, a lot of people are blaming things like the rising cost of tuition, administrative bloat and infrastructure overspending at colleges, and cutbacks in state funding for the crisis.While all of these factors play a significant role in the problem, they all focus on things that are beyond -LSB-...]

Online banks do not have to account for significant infrastructure and overhead costs, which allows them to offer higher returns than traditional bank branches.

No matter how scurrilous the actions of the oil companies, will the plaintiffs be able to show that the actions have resulted in higher atmospheric CO2 levels, rising seas, and significant increased infrastructure costs for the plaintiffs?

The estimated benefits do not include a significant number of ancillary and un ‐ quantified benefits, such as the reduction of co ‐ pollutants (particularly sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide), the prevention of species extinction, and lower maintenance costs for energy infrastructure.

These contracts finance and construct large renewable projects like land - based wind farms that have significant capital costs and require upgrades to transmission infrastructure.

Just to make the costs of regulation clear, if a regulator decided that the upper limit of RCP8.5 will be used to declare you are in a no development, no infrastructure maintenance zone today, you will immediately face a significant drop in value.

However, there are many concerns about the significant costs that are needed for development of the infrastructure needed to ensure any renewable energy supply is sustainable.

Large projects that require significant capital costs and upgrades to transmission infrastructure can be facilitated by long - term contracts that include transmission and enable cheaper financing.

In addition to compatibility problems with E15, expanded use of another alternative fuel (E85) has not occurred due to poor consumer acceptance and significant infrastructure and cost challenges.

And remember not only that this would contain just 20 percent of today's CO2 emissions but also this crucial difference: The oil industry has invested in its enormous infrastructure in order to make a profit, to sell its product on an energy - hungry market (at around $ 100 per barrel and 7.2 barrels per tonne that comes to about $ 700 per tonne)-- but (one way or another) the taxpayers of rich countries would have to pay for huge capital costs and significant operating burdens of any massive CCS.

Businesses already suffer significant costs from the effects of climate change, including rising health care costs, more stress on the energy grid, and disruptions of transportation infrastructure.

Results of the study — which is backed by offshore wind developers EnBW, Engie, Eolfi, E.ON, Iberdrola, Innogy, Kyuden Mirai Energy, Orsted, Shell, Statoil, Vattenfall, and Wpd — included that dynamic cables to export power back to shore represent a «significant bottleneck»; «dedicated» mooring solutions would be needed by full - scale floating wind farm units; and that infrastructure and logistics will be «critical» to cost reduction efforts and opening new markets for the sector, according to scoping projects run by Petrofac, Ramboll and London Offshore Consultants.

The cloud has been touted as a significant revolution in computing — providing scalable, secure, and cost effective alternatives to owing and managing your own computing infrastructure.

A large firm with significant fixed costs (buildings, insurance, technology and other infrastructure, for example) will find it hard to make a real change to this number without also affecting some of the intangible factors — client experience, staff turnover, etc..

The paper notes that international payments remain slow and expensive, and significant savings can be made by banks and end - users bypassing existing international payment networks, and suggests that distributed ledger technology could reduce banks» infrastructure costs attributable to cross-border payments, securities trading and regulatory compliance by between $ 15 billion and $ 20 billion per annum by 2022.

However, government agencies are facing the combined struggle of exponential data growth and tight or diminishing budgets and are viewing cloud as the way to transfer more workloads to lower - cost platforms, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), often without acquiring significant resources,» Adelaide O'Brien, research director at IDC Government Insights, told the E-Commerce...

Professional Experience Motorola Solutions, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) 1997 — Present IT Manager, Global Engineering Core Operations (02/2010 — Present) • Serve as Application and Infrastructure Support Manager for Global Engineering Tools • Set and strictly adhere to departmental budgets and timelines ensuring cost effective and efficient operations • Implement staff development activities for the Engineering Core Operations team • Create an atmosphere of respect and dedication to corporate goals and long term business development • Provide a competitive advantage for Motorola Solutions in support of the development environment • Deliver significant project cost - savings through effective strategic planning, personnel management, and resource application • Maintain information integrity through the development and implementation of data security measures • Build and strengthen professional relationships with vendors, clients, and partners • Oversee procurement and tracking of HW and SW assets per corporate policies and procedures