The lines are thinner than the silver lines commonly found in other solar panels today, so they allow more cells to be exposed to the sun and produce power.

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Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.

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Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences (nyse: CSC - news - people ), which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.

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