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[Day 1728 2019-06-19]
Lesson 10-1 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 that there are now work-stations 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 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. 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're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. 'We really thrive on anarchy.'
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[Day 1729 2019-06-20]
Lesson 10-2 Silicon valley
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 markets. 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.
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任务配置： L0+L4
知识笔记：
单词：integrated 综合的 / circuit 线路 电路 / chip 芯片 集成电路片 集成块 / newsletter 时事通讯 / penalize 处罚 惩罚 / customize 按顾客具体需要制造 / spawn 引起 酿成 / thrive 兴旺 繁荣 / anarchy 无政府状态 混乱 / constitute 构成 / drove 群 / forge 发展 /
练习感悟：
补于 0624：时间过得太快了！不及时总结就会忘记当时的情绪呀~
