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

同时，二手市场上产200毫米硅片的机器早已断货。

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

该警告来自ASML，该公司产的光刻机将电路蚀刻在硅片上。

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

在未来的某个时候，该硅片上的DNA可以被转化为数字信息。

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

为了制这些集成电路，晶体管需要在纯晶体硅片上层层地组装起来。

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

科技、汽车制业和全球经济都能从硅片上感受到巨大的连锁反应。

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层二氧化硅。

The wafer is then sent through a hard bake to harden the remaining photoresist.

然后将硅片送入高温烘烤工序，以硬化剩余的光刻胶。

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，以及高效利用硅片和电力的重要性。

The panels are being installed, along with conventional silicon units, at a new grid-connected solar farm.

这些太阳能电池板正在与传统的硅片起在个新的并网太阳能发电场进行安装。

They project chip blueprints onto photosensitive silicon wafers.

他们将芯片蓝图投射到光敏硅片上。

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，那么它仍然只是硅片。

Within this microchip factory, silicon wafers travel from machine to machine

在这家微芯片制厂中，硅片从台机器传送到另台机器。

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，因此在硅片上复制它们可能是个好主意。

This is where ASML makes, among other things, mirror blocks, the main part of a wafer table.

这里就是艾司摩尔产镜的地方，镜是硅片台的主要组成部分之。

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上。

A wafer table in a lithography machine is similarly likely to miss the mark at first.

个光刻机中的硅片台初次运行时也很可能达不到目标。

Just remember: at the heart of each of those chips is one of these small pieces of silicon.

只需记住：每芯片的核心都是硅片。

A piece of silicon containing a general-purpose CPU. The most common examples are Intel" s 80x86 and Motorola" s 680x0 families.

片包含通用CPU的硅片。常见的例子是：Intel80x86、Motorola 680x0系列。

These wafer washers use ultra-pure water to clean the wafer and then dry it with nitrogen or hot isopropyl alcohol.

这些硅片清洗机使用超纯水清洁硅片，然后再用氮气或热异丙醇干燥。

And, by the end of production, each silicon wafer will be covered in hundreds of CPU chips, each containing 26 billion transistors.

到产结束时，每硅片上将覆盖数百个CPU芯片，每个芯片包含260亿个晶体管。