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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Until recently, however, Silicon Valley did not take much interest in the alternative use of its principal raw material.

然而，直到近几年，硅谷（电子科技产业中心）才开始对这种基础天然物质的其他用途产生兴趣。

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The chemical contents in the sand quartz has reached national standards of silicon raw material for plate glass production after combined treating by magnetic separation plus diluted acid dipping.

采用磁选分离法+稀酸浸泡法联合处理后，使该地石英砂的化学成分达到了优质的生产平板玻璃用硅质原料的国家标准。

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If silicon had remained high priced it might even have worked: but as they were ramping up production into a world where the raw silicon ingot had just fallen to 10% of its previous price they were doomed.

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Take Sharp, which since 2000 has led the world in solar panels sold (it dropped to No. 2 last year in the midst of a silicon raw-material shortage).

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Your raw material is silicon ingot, itself made from sand.

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