Ones and zeroes representing the on and off states of the transistor.

“1”和“0”代表体管的开关状态。

But even a present-day transistor operates at the Gigahertz.

但就算现在的电体 都以千兆赫的频率运行。

Just a few millimeters, they're inside here, yet they contain thousands of transistors.

只有几毫米，它们就在这里，但它们包含了数千个体管。

You can fit more than a billion transistors in a single square millimeter of silicon.

你可以在一平方毫米的硅中放入超过10亿个体管。

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

开始记忆被存放于电子管里，然后体管和后来更小的片。

One of its recent products, the H100 GPU, has 80 billion transistors.

其最新产品之一H100图形处理单元拥有800亿个体管。

The key metrics of the performance of the chips actually the size of the transistors.

衡量芯片性能的关键指标实际上体管的大小。

We are talking about this fuel atoms in each silicon transistor.

我们想做的每个硅体管中的这种燃料原子。

He says researchers want transistors to be seen through and soft.

研究者体管透明的、柔软的。

Get your batteries out to get your flashlights out, to get your transistor radio out.

出门要带上手电筒, 电池，还有收音机。

There were no transistors in the box, no wires or tubes.

木盒里没有体管，没有电线，也没有真空管。

And you go on through transistors. And suddenly you are in the digital age.

然后通过体管传递声音，最后我们突然间进入了数码时代。

One of the main functions of a transistor is to switch an electrical signal on and off.

体管的主要功能之一开关电信号。

We are trying to make the next generation transistors better devices than current technologies.

我们正在努力使下一代体管成为比当前技术更好的器件。

A14 Bionic has a smaller five-nanometer transistor, which pushes the most powerful chip in a smartphone...generations ahead.

A14仿生的5纳米制程体管，让这款iPhone最快的芯片大大超前。

Scientists in the United States have announced the creation of the first transistor with only two dimensions.

美国科学家宣布创造出首个二维体管。

Yet, nestling amid the quarks and transistors and the nucleic acids and nanotubes, there is a question.

然而，就在夸克、半导体、核酸和纳米管等 涌现的同时，出现了一个问题。

We want to use self-assembling materials to naturally form the periodic structures that we need for our transistors.

我们使用自组装材料来自然地形成体管所需的周期结构。

Cracking this problem—so that transistors can act as their own non-volatile memory—would make all computers faster.

解决这个问题——以便于让体管使用自身的非易失性半导体存储器——将会让所有的电脑运行速度更快。

The physics behind transistors is pretty complex, relying on quantum mechanics, so we're going to stick to the basics.

体管背后的物理学相当复杂，依赖于量子力学，所以我们只讲基础。