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Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.

技术趋势可能将硅谷推向未来。

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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 and editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.

加州理工学院的集成电路先驱、计算机科学教授卡弗·米德指出，现在工程师可以在他们的办公桌上设计、测试和生产芯片，就像编辑在Macintosh上创建新闻通讯一样。

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As the time and cost of making a chip drop 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.

随着芯片制造的时间和成本降至几天和几百美元，工程师们可能很快就能自由发挥想象力，而不会因昂贵的失败而受到惩罚。

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Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office --

米德预测，发明家将能够在办公室里用一个周末的时间完善功能强大的定制芯片——

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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.

催生新一代的“车库创业公司”，并使美国在将新产品快速推向市场方面超越其外国竞争对手。

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'We've got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. 'We really thrive on anarchy. '

'We've got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. 'We really thrive on anarchy. '

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And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.

还有亚洲人。在许多硅谷公司，东方人和亚裔美国人已经构成了工程技术人员的大多数。

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And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.

中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师正从加州的大学里大量毕业。

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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 markets.

作为下一代创业公司的负责人，这些亚洲创新者可以利用习俗和语言与关键的环太平洋市场建立更紧密的联系。

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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.

例如，来自香港的斯坦福大学博士Alex Au在台湾设立了一家工厂，以挑战日本在内存芯片市场近乎垄断的地位。

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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.

去年春天，印度出生的N. Damodar Reddy在密苏里州的资助下，他那小小的加州公司在堪萨斯城重新启用了一家AT&T芯片工厂。

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Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.

在它成为一个退休村之前，硅谷可能会成为一个建立全球业务的课堂。