Electronic computer chips made of tiny silicon wafers now regularly contain millions of electronic switches.
由微小硅片制成的电子计算机芯片现在通常包含数百万个电子开关。
But these workers aren't just manufacturing high-tech computer chips.
但这些工人并不仅仅是在制造高科技的计算机芯片。
The miniaturisation of the components of computer chips has proved unstoppable.
事实证明，计算机芯片元件的微型化已经势不可挡。
For example, they use natural resources and convert them to corn syrup or computer chips.
举例说，他们利用天然资源，并将它们转化为玉米糖浆或电脑芯片。
The equipment employs laser beams to make the computer chips.
这种设备使用激光束制作电脑芯片。
That's what helped make possible things like computer chips and GPS.
正是这些让电脑芯片和GPS成为可能。
That's not much compared to computer chips, but Tour says this tag is just a "proof of concept."
和计算机芯片相比，这算不了什么。不过图尔称，这种新标签还仅仅处于“验证设想”阶段。
Intel, the world's biggest maker of computer chips, is being sued by a US competition authority.
世界上最大的电脑芯片制造商英特尔被一家美国竞争管理局起诉。
Standard solar panels are assembled from arrays of photovoltaic cells made from silicon, like computer chips.
标准的太阳能板是由硅做成的光电池并排在一起组成的，就像是电脑芯片一样。
At Dowa's plant, computer chips and other vital parts from electronics are hacked into two-centimeter squares.
在Dowa的回收厂，电脑芯片和其他电子产品的主要部分被切割成2厘米见方的小块。
Applied Materials, where Mr Gay works, has branched out from flat screens and computer chips into solar cells.
盖伊的公司应用材料（AppliedMaterials)的业务范围从纯平显示屏扩展到计算机芯片，再到太阳能电池（solar cell)。
In this photo, a worker heats a computer board on a steel surface to remove the computer chips soldered into it.
图中的这位工人在一块钢板表面加热一块电脑电路板以取下焊接在上面的芯片原件。
DNA computer chips would offer significant advantages in both speed and price compared with current technology.
与目前的技术相比，DNA计算机芯片在速度和成本上都具有优势。
This characteristic may make the materials ideal for use in drawing heat away from objects that include computer chips.
这些特性将使这些材料非常适合作为电脑芯片散热材料使用。
We also need more research into improving the security of computer chips and other hardware that gets installed in the grid.
我们还需要更多关于提高电脑芯片和其他硬件安全性的研究。
Looking at progress in computer chips, I dreamt about how cheap photovoltaic solar panels might become over the next 50 years.
看到人们在计算机芯片上取得的进展，我梦想着在未来50年光电太阳能电池板或许会变得非常廉价。
Even the most optimistic semiconductor researchers say that silicon-based computer chips may only have 15 years or so left in them.
即便最乐观的半导体研究者都说，以硅为原料的计算机芯片或许最多还能存在15年左右。
The concept was that computer chips could be put everywhere and send information in a smart network that would make ordinary life simpler.
其概念是电脑芯片可以随处安装并通过一个奇妙网络发送信息，使日常生活简单化。
Though Intel supplies about 80 percent of the world's computer chips, it so far has failed to repeat that success outside the PC business.
虽然世界上80%的计算机芯片都是由英特尔提供的，但目前为止，在其它领域英特尔还没能复制其在个人电脑领域取得的成功。
In the years ahead new wireless technologies will appear in a plethora of devices, much as computer chips did in the second half of the 20th century.
未来几年里，配备无线功能的装置将大量涌现，就像计算机芯片在二十世纪后半段的流行那样。
Silicon is a key component of computer chips and circuits and it's estimated that there are currently more than one billion computers in use worldwide.
硅是计算机芯片和电路的关键部件，据估计，目前全世界有超过十亿台计算机。
Considering the expense, precision and difficulty of manufacturing computer chips, you would think the engineers designing them are pretty serious people.
考虑到制造电脑芯片的费用，精密度和困难程度，你可能会认为设计芯片的工程师都是很严肃的人。
Then there are energy products like gas turbines for power plants made by General Electric, computer chips from Intel and fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.
还有通用电气为动力工厂提供的能源产品如燃气涡轮机，英特尔公司的电脑芯片，洛克希德马丁公司公司的战斗机。
The components of the Intel system, including the lasers, are made with the same silicon-sculpting methods used to construct computer chips in vast quantities.
英特尔系统的这些组件，包括激光器，都是使用和量产计算机集成电路同样的硅晶刻方式生产。
As computers grow increasingly powerful, computer chips are becoming more and more densely packed with transistors, the basic building blocks of microprocessors.
计算机变得日渐强大，组成计算机芯片的晶体管排列越来越紧凑。
The patent is fundamental to producing carbon nanotubes, which are expected to be the building blocks of a new class of smaller, faster and lower-power computer chips.
这项专利是对碳纳米管生产至关重要，预计碳纳米管将成为更小，速度更快，能耗更低的新型计算机芯片的基石。
Two Japanese companies are the leading producers of silicon wafers, the raw material used to make computer chips, accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's supply.
有两家日本公司是全球领先的硅晶片生产商，硅晶片用于制造电脑芯片，占了全球供应的60%还多。
Two Japanese companies are the leading producers of silicon wafers, the raw material used to make computer chips, accounting for more than 60 percent of the world's supply.
有两家日本公司是全球领先的硅晶片生产商，硅晶片用于制造电脑芯片，占了全球供应的60%还多。
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