hardware

1. Trading: (1) A manufactured item. (2) Fasteners and fittings used in construction industry.

2. Computing: Physical equipment that makes up a computer system, such as circuit boards, keyboard and mouse, monitor, printer, power supply, storage devices. Contrasts with software.

No one will deny that Sony is a world-class hardware company, and no one would deny that Microsoft is a world-class software company. Nintendo aspires to be neither one of those things. (Peter Main was a Nintendo marketing executive. This was stated in the San Francisco Chronicle)