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Global PC vendors: Absolute R&D spending 2009-2010
The statistic depicts the absolute amount spent on research and development (R&D) companywide for the top 10 global PC vendors. Sony spent a total amount of 5,035 million U.S. dollars on research an development in 2009. In 2010, it was 4,623 million U.S. dollars.