I was a precocious junior manager in charge of a key process for the 386 silicon chip.

那时的我是一青涩的初级经理，负责整386硅芯片设计中的关键一步。

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

在未来的某时候，该硅片上的DNA可以被转化为数。

Even the production of silicon chips uses sand.

甚至硅芯片的生产也使用沙子。

The silicon chips are smaller than a child's hand. Each one has living cells that act and react like a human organ.

这些硅晶片比小孩的手还要小，每都有能像人体器一样运作和反应的活细胞。

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors.

在俄亥俄州克利夫兰的凯斯西储大学， 研究科学家设计了一 4 英的硅芯片， 可容纳 700 微型原始电机。

Fab plant is used to talk about one where hi-tech manufacturing of silicon chips – the main components of computers – takes place.

Fab plant 用于谈论高科技制造硅芯片（计算机的主要部件）的地方。

Fabrications of these meta-lenses should also be much more cost-effective, compatible with silicon chip technology versus complex polishing and sometimes stringent requirements for high-performance lenses.

这些超透镜的制造也应该更具成本效益，与硅芯片技术兼容， 而不是复杂的抛光和有时对高性能透镜的严格要求。

Technological innovations such as the water wheel, the plow, the steam engine, electricity or the silicon chip can make a tremendous difference in whether work will be enjoyable or not.

诸如水车、犁、蒸汽机、电力或硅芯片等技术革新可以极大地影响工作是否令人愉快。

Intagliata:  Still, they all pointed out that silicon chips first reached this level of complexity a long time ago—in the 70s and 80s—and had to overcome many similar challenges to get where they are today.

Intagliata：尽管如此，他们都指出，硅芯片在很久以前——在 70 年代和 80 年代——首次达到了这种复杂程度，并且必须克服许多类似的挑战才能达到今天的水平。