The Computer Hardware industry consists of companies engaged in assembling and manufacturing computers, computer hardware and computer peripherals. Providing a wide range of products, a rapidly growing segment of the computer hardware industry is in multipurpose handheld communication devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, which allow consumers to have phone conversations, send electronic text messages and email, surf the Internet, or access media. The industry includes storage devices, keyboards, printers, monitors, mouse and other pointing devices, Webcams and PC cameras, as well as ATM machines.