The market for second- hand 200mm tools, meanwhile, has been stripped bare.

同时，二手生产200毫米硅片的机器早已断货。

They just used a hot plate with either a metal plate or a silicon wafer on top, then the oil (they used silicon oil), then a syringe to precisely place a water drop.

研究人员只用了一块热板，是一块金属板，也是一块硅片板，涂油(他们使用的是硅油)，然后用注射器精确地滴下水珠。

Huge ripple effects are begin felt across tech, auto manufacturing and the global economy all from a tiny piece of silicon.

科技、汽车制造业和全球经济都能从一小块硅片感受到巨大的连锁反应。

To manufacture these integrated circuits, the transistors are built up layer by layer, on a pure crystalline silicon wafer.

为了制造这些集成电路，晶体管需要在纯晶体硅片一层一层地组装起来。

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

在来的某个时候，该硅片的DNA被转化为数字信息。

The warning comes from ASML, the company makes lithography machines that etch circuits onto silicon wafers.

该警告来自ASML，该公司生产的光刻机将电路蚀刻在硅片。

Demand for cars has since recovered. But the complexities of the production process means it takes three to four months to turn a blank silicon wafer into a usable batch of chips.

自那后对汽车的需求已经逐渐恢复，但生产过程的复杂性意味着将一张空白硅片变为一组用的芯片需要三到四个月的时间。

Here, oxygen gas reacts with the wafer to form a layer of silicon dioxide.

在这里，氧气与硅片反应形成一层二氧化硅。

And that's, again, this drive for efficiency and using the silicon and power efficiently.

而这再次强调了对效率的追求，及高效利用硅片和电力的重要性。

In the same way that a film can be projected to fill an entire movie screen, we can focus a photomask onto a very small patch of silicon, creating incredibly fine details.

就像一部电影射到填满整个电影屏幕一样，我们将光掩模聚焦到一小块硅片，创造出极其精细的细节。

It is a slab of silicon measuring 21.5 centimeters by 21.5 centimeters that the firm refers to as a wafer scale engine, But whatever name you give it.

它是一块边长21.5厘米的硅片，该公司称之为晶圆级引擎，但无论你给它起什么名字。

So if NVIDIA is what I was supporting before, remember that for every dollar spent on silicon, I believe it's $3 to $4 spent on power and cooling.

所， 如果英伟达是我之前支持的对象，请记住， 每在硅片花费一美元，我相信就有三到四美元用于电力和冷却。

These silicon wafers are carried in stacks of 25 using a container called a front-opening universal pod, or FUP.

这些硅片使用一种称为前端开口通用舱（FUP）的容器25片为一叠进行运输。

Brains are, after all, pretty successful information processors, so reproducing them in silicon could be a good idea.

毕竟， 大脑是相当成功的信息处理器，因此在硅片复制它们能是一个好主意。

No such limit can be discerned in the quantity of transistors that can be fabricated on silicon, which has proceeded through eight orders of magnitude in the 46 years since the transistor was invented.

在硅片制造的晶体管数量， 无法察觉到这样的极限，自晶体管发明来的46年间， 这一数量已经增加了八个数量级。

" Stores footage on this tiny solidstate card." He pointed to a stamp-size square of silicon embedded in the skullcap. " Probably motion activated." Jesus, she thought. So that's how he did it.

" 把镜头存储在这张小小的固态卡。" 他指着嵌在头盖骨的邮票大小的硅片, " 能是运动激活的。" 天啊, 她想。所这就是他做这件事的方式。

And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon.

而且，计算能力的成本持续下降，这对于任何在硅片开店的企业来说都是一个好兆头。

So for example, in the middle of the summer, China introduced a tariff and slowing the export of certain materials and technology to make solar wafers.

例如， 在盛夏时节，中国征收关税， 并减缓了某些用于制造太阳能硅片的材料和技术的出口。

Canon is trying to stage a return with nano-imprint lithography, which physically stamps chip designs onto wafers.

佳能正试图通过纳米压印光刻技术实现回归，该技术能够将芯片设计物理压印到硅片。

If we cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, then it's still just a chunk of silicon.

如果我们无法与它建立有意义的关系，那么它仍然只是一块硅片。