Their first strategy is a technique, common in chip manufacturing, called doping, in which atoms of some other element are added to a semiconductor crystal.

第一步策略是一个在芯片产业上普遍使用的技术，叫做“掺杂”，就是在半导体晶体中加入其它元素的原子。

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Second-ranked computer memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor and Japan's Elpida memory swung to deep losses as prices of DRAM chips used in PCs tumbled about 50 percent in the third quarter.

排在第二位的电脑内存芯片生产商海力士半导体和日本的尔必达存储器公司在电脑用DRAM芯片销售价格上损失惨重，在第三季度跌落50%。

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"The term 'embedded' used to refer to a low-level, limited-function semiconductor and nobody needed to pay attention to it," said Shane Rau, a chip expert at the market research firm IDC.

“过去，术语‘嵌入式’指低水平的、功能有限的半导体，人们也无需关注它，”市场调研公司国际数据公司(IDC)的芯片专家谢恩·劳说。

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By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.

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Another semiconductor chip company that looks quite positive from an intermediate-term perspective is Semtech Corporation ( SMTC).

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The LED stands for "light-emitting diode, " a semiconductor chip, found in VCRs and radios, that glows when electrified.

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