This thing must have some kind of primitive ROM chip or something!

这玩意一定是用的原始记忆！

For example, about a million of these OWICs can fit on a single four-inch wafer.

比如，一个 4 英寸的可以下约 100 万个这样的 OWIC。

First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips.

开始记忆于电子管里，然后是体管和后来更小的。

The Semi-Conductor Association estimates that the five-year cost of building and operating a factory making the wafers needed for semiconductors is $1 billion dearer in the United States than elsewhere.

半导体协会预计在此处建成及运营一家生产半导体的工厂的五年成本比在国外要高出10亿美元。

The transistor used to be a big, bulky device, until the invent of the integrated circuit based on pure crystalline silicon wafers.

过去体管是一种又大又笨重的器件，直到基于纯的集成电路的发明后才慢慢改变。

He helped design the “transputer” technology used in countless set-top boxes.

他帮助设计了运用在无数机顶盒中的“机”技术。

So, for example, this image on the left, this is a chip, and this chip has something like 10,000 robots on it.

比如，左图是一块，这个上就有 1 万个机器人。

We can build something like one million robots on a single four-inch wafer.

我们可以在一个 4 英寸的上制造 100 万个机器人。

But if you take that chip and you put it under a microscope, what you're going to see are thousands and thousands of tiny robots.

但如果你把这个到显微镜下，你会看见数以千计的微型机器人。

There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer-thin layers that fill my complex.

在我的复杂体内，薄如的层叠中，铺设着3.8744亿英里的印刷电路。

The critical machines are those used to etch transistors onto silicon wafers.

关键机器指的是用于在上蚀刻体管的设备。

It explains why diamond is so hard while graphite is so soft and how the main ingredient in sand can also be made into the silicon wafers that make our electronics.

它解释了为什么钻石如此坚硬而石墨却如此柔软，以及沙子的主要成分如何也能制成用于制造我们电子设备的。

CMP applies slurry and uses abrasive pads to grind and polish away the top surface of the wafer, making it perfectly flat.

化学机械平面化使用浆液和研磨垫打磨并抛光的表面，使其完全平坦。

Now, if you'd known about IBM before the invention of the microchip, would you have bought in?

要是在微发明之前你就瞅见了IBM，你会入股吗？