I was a precocious junior manager in charge of a key process for the 386 silicon chip.

那时我是一个青涩初级经理，负责整个386硅芯片设计中关键一步。

Then sometime in the future, the DNA on that silicon chip can be translated back into digital information.

在未某个时候，该硅片上DNA可以被转化为数字信息。

The silicon chips are smaller than a child's hand. Each one has living cells that act and react like a human organ.

这些硅晶片比小孩手还要小，每个都有能像人体器官一样运作和反应活细胞。

Even the production of silicon chips uses sand.

甚至硅芯片也使用沙子。

That are used by the semiconductor manufacturing industry to make silicon chips.

这些被半导体制造业用制造硅芯片。

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors.

在州克利夫兰凯斯西储大学， 研究科学家设计了一个 4 英寸硅芯片， 可容纳 700 个微型原始电机。

Fab plant is used to talk about one where hi-tech manufacturing of silicon chips – the main components of computers – takes place.

Fab plant 用于谈论高科技制造硅芯片（计算机主要部件）地方。

They fight cyber attacks here, design silicon chips, create new Minecraft experiences, research quantum, build the AI tools of the future, and they keep everything.

他们在此抵御网络攻击， 设计硅芯片，打造全新《我世界》体验， 探索量子领域，构建未人工智能工具， 并将一切珍藏于此。

So the point I was making there is that if it was easy to manufacture light sources along with transistors on a silicon chip, they would be everywhere.

所以我意思是， 如果在硅芯片上同时制造光源和晶体管很容易话，它们就会无处不在。

And the silicon chip drives the light source chip and modulates the intensity of the light so you can get data out of the package on an optical fiber.

并且硅芯片驱动光源芯片并调制光强度，从而你可以通过光纤从封装中获取数据。

Technological innovations such as the water wheel, the plow, the steam engine, electricity or the silicon chip can make a tremendous difference in whether work will be enjoyable or not.

诸如水车、犁、蒸汽机、电力或硅芯片等技术革新可以极大地影响工作是否令人愉快。

Intagliata:  Still, they all pointed out that silicon chips first reached this level of complexity a long time ago—in the 70s and 80s—and had to overcome many similar challenges to get where they are today.

Intagliata：尽管如此，他们所有人都指出，硅芯片早在70年代和80年代就达到了这种复杂程度，并且必须克服许多类似挑战才能发展到今天水平。

If we had a light source on a silicon chip, that was as simple as a transistor, there would not be a processor in the world that didn't use light for communication, at least above some distance.

如果我们有一个像晶体管一样简单硅芯片光源，那么世界上就没有处理器不使用光进行通信，至少在一定距离之上是这样。