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

那时的我是一个青涩的初级经理，负责整个386芯设计中的关键一步。

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

在未来的某个时候，该上的DNA可以被转化为数字信息。

Even the production of silicon chips uses sand.

甚至芯的生产也使用沙子。

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

这些比孩的手还要，每个都有能像人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个 4 英寸的芯， 可容纳 700 个微型原始电机。

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芯（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，与芯技术兼容， 而不是复杂的抛光和有时对高性能透镜的严格要求。

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，芯在很久以前——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。