With microelectronics technology reducing the size of telecommunications devices, this is no paranoid fantasy any longer.

随着微电子科技不断把电子信息装置的体积缩小，上述情况已不再只是想了。

James studied micro-beams and microelectronics, hoping to invent a new meter in meteorology.

詹姆士研究微光束和微电子学，希望能发明一种气象学的新仪表。

In microelectronics, they use something called lithography to do the same sort of thing, to make the transistors and integrated circuits and build up a structure several times.

在微电子学中，人们使用相同原理的光刻技术，来制造晶体管和集成电路，构建一个结构。

The then Labour government decided that Britain needed a microelectronics industry and in 1978 invested ? 50m ($96m) in a stake in Inmos, a new venture with a design team in Bristol and a chip plant in Newport, South Wales.

当时由工党执政的英国政府坚定认为英国需要一个微电产业。于是，他们在1978年购买了Inmos公司价值5000万英镑（9600万美元）的股份。这家公司在布里斯托有一个设计小组，还在南威尔士的新港拥有一座芯片工厂。