We have used silicon chips for only a few years, but life is changing faster every day.

我们使用硅芯片只有几年的时间，但生活每天变化得更快。

The silicon chips are less than a millimetre thick.

这些硅片厚度不足一毫米。

The silicon chips are less than a millimeter thick.

这些硅片厚度不足一毫米。

Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.

设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。

THESE days using silicon chips to allow machines to see is commonplace.

现今使用硅芯片使机器可视已经很平常了。

In addition, it is also developing home-grown silicon chips to power the behemoths.

此外，它也正在为那些庞然大物开发本土的硅芯片。

Silicon chips, once confined to flat, rigid shapes, will break out of the planar mold.

曾经被限制在平面、规定形状中的硅芯片也将突二维空间。

The silicon chips are usually designed as membranes, which have limited sensitivity.

以往的硅生化传感器多设计为膜片式，器件的灵敏度受到限制。

But it takes years for the companies that make the silicon chips to overhaul their strategies.

但是硅片制造公司耗费数年时间来检查其策略。

We, today, enjoy a wealth of consumer products that use silicon chips that cost sometimes a few dollars.

今天，我们使用的很多消费品都利用了硅片，而这些硅片的价格极其低廉，有时只售几美元。

Complexity poured into the artificial medium of machines and silicon chips will only be in further flux.

注入人工介质和硅晶片中的复杂性只会有更进一步的流变。

Plastic microprocessors are not, of course, going to replace silicon chips as the microprocessors in computers.

当然了，塑料微处理器将不会作为计算机微处理器去取代硅芯片。

Most are produced in huge, ultra-clean factories using batch processes similar to those for making silicon chips.

大部分是在巨大的，超净的工厂中采用类似于生产硅片的工艺来分批制成的。

A vast network of computers is being harnessed to design components for the next generation of silicon chips.

一组电脑搭建的巨大网路被用来设计下一代硅片的组件。

On top of all that, silicon chips are hard and rigid, restricting their application in things like flexible display screens.

再加上，硅芯片既坚且硬，这使得它在某些场合下的应用受到限制，比如说能弯折的显示屏。

Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) is used mainly by the semiconductor industry to clean the Chambers in which silicon chips are made.

三氟化氮(NF 3)主要被半导体工业用于清洗制造硅芯片的工作舱。

Existing ways of printing devices at the nanoscale tend to be complex and expensive, and more appropriate for making silicon chips.

以纳米技术领域的打印设备的现有方式来制作硅片往往是复杂与昂贵的，而且更为合适。

Unlike the materials typically used in lasers, germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips.

有别于通常用于激发激光的物质，锗元素可以很容易的融入目前广泛使用的硅制芯片。

Experiments found that living human cells can ingest or receive injections of silicon chips and continue functioning as usual for the most part.

实验发现，活的人类细胞能够接受植入的硅芯片，而且其大部分还能正常的工作。

Though the leading processing will extend the life cycle of silicon chips, it will surely come to an end for its size can't be reduced anymore.

虽然先进工艺可使硅芯片的生命周期延长，但迟早会因为尺寸无法继续缩小而走向终结。

Last week, Paniccia's team demonstrated the first complete photonic communications system made from components fully integrated into silicon chips.

上周，Paniccia的团队发布了第一个完整地集成在硅晶集成电路中的光子通讯系统。

At present these LEDs are made in machines similar to those used to make silicon chips, by depositing layers of gallium nitride on sapphire-based wafers.

目前LED同硅晶片的制作设备类似，都是通过在蓝宝石衬底片上沉淀氮化镓层实现。

Other techniques involve huge lumps of machinery, but Josephson junctions can be made using the sort of microfabrication technology employed for normal silicon chips.

其他技术都需要一堆巨大的机械装置，而约瑟夫森结则可以通过运用利用普通硅芯片的微型装配技术得到。

Linked together on the surfaces of silicon chips, they form the logic gates that do the calculations in computers, mobile phones, television sets and other electronic gadgets.

在硅晶片的表面将它们连接起来，就形成了逻辑门电路，这就是计算机，手机，电视机以及其它电子产品中最基础的元件。