新概念英语4册第10课
2004-09-01 10:55
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Silicon Valley
Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drip to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office -- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S. a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. “We`ve got more garages with smart people,” Mead observes. “We realy trive on anarchy.”
And on Asians, already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms. And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California`s colleges. As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim market. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan`s near lock on the memory-chip market. India-born N.Damodar Reddy`s tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.
科技发展也许会把硅谷重新推向未来。Carver Mead, 集成电路的先驱者，并且是加洲理工大学的计算机教授。他注意到现在的工作站能让工程师在他们的办公桌前设计、测试、生产芯片。就象编辑在(Mac)麦金托什机上创作时事评论一样。随着制造芯片的时间和成本降到几天和几百美元，工程师可以任意发挥自己的想象而不会被昂贵的失败处罚。Mead预言发明家将能够周末在办公室修改强大的定制芯片--创造一个新的开始，并使美国在外国竞争对手面前更快地将新产品推向市场。“我们有许多公司和聪明的人”，Mead说，"我们在无政府状态下繁荣发展。”
而在亚洲，本土的和亚裔美国人已经是构成公司工程师团队的主要部分。大量中国，韩国，菲律宾和印度的工程师从加洲的大学毕业。作为下一次开始的头领，这些亚洲的革新者可以将风俗和语言同重要的太平洋市场紧密的联系起来。例如，Alex Au, 来自香港的斯坦佛博士，建立了一家台湾公司，挑战日本封锁的的记忆体芯片市场。生于印度的N.Damodar Reddy的位于加洲的小型公司，获得了密苏里洲的自主，去年春天重新在堪萨斯进行AT&T芯片的生产。在硅谷成为一个宁静的小村庄前，它也许是建立全世界商业的一个教室。
注：garage，原意车库。国外许多公司都是从车库里几个人起步的，例如Microsoft和Apple等等.
Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip drip to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office -- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S. a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. “We`ve got more garages with smart people,” Mead observes. “We realy trive on anarchy.”
And on Asians, already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms. And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California`s colleges. As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim market. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan`s near lock on the memory-chip market. India-born N.Damodar Reddy`s tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.
科技发展也许会把硅谷重新推向未来。Carver Mead, 集成电路的先驱者，并且是加洲理工大学的计算机教授。他注意到现在的工作站能让工程师在他们的办公桌前设计、测试、生产芯片。就象编辑在(Mac)麦金托什机上创作时事评论一样。随着制造芯片的时间和成本降到几天和几百美元，工程师可以任意发挥自己的想象而不会被昂贵的失败处罚。Mead预言发明家将能够周末在办公室修改强大的定制芯片--创造一个新的开始，并使美国在外国竞争对手面前更快地将新产品推向市场。“我们有许多公司和聪明的人”，Mead说，"我们在无政府状态下繁荣发展。”
而在亚洲，本土的和亚裔美国人已经是构成公司工程师团队的主要部分。大量中国，韩国，菲律宾和印度的工程师从加洲的大学毕业。作为下一次开始的头领，这些亚洲的革新者可以将风俗和语言同重要的太平洋市场紧密的联系起来。例如，Alex Au, 来自香港的斯坦佛博士，建立了一家台湾公司，挑战日本封锁的的记忆体芯片市场。生于印度的N.Damodar Reddy的位于加洲的小型公司，获得了密苏里洲的自主，去年春天重新在堪萨斯进行AT&T芯片的生产。在硅谷成为一个宁静的小村庄前，它也许是建立全世界商业的一个教室。
注：garage，原意车库。国外许多公司都是从车库里几个人起步的，例如Microsoft和Apple等等.
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