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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 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've got more garages with smart people," Mead observes. "We really thrive on anarchy."
技术的发展趋势很可能让硅谷再次领先。集成电路先驱、加州理工学院计算机教授卡弗·米德认为，现在已有计算机工作站可以让工程师在自己的工位上设计、测试和生产芯片，就像用苹果麦金塔电脑上写新闻稿的编辑一样。由于芯片的制造时间降至几天，制造成本也只有几百美元，工程师可能很快就可以充分发挥他们的想像力，而无需担心高昂的试错成本。米德预测，发明者将能在办公室里，用一个周末完善性能强大的定制芯片——这会催生新一代车库创业公司，也让美国在迅速将新产品推向市场方面抢在国外竞争者前面。 “我们有更多的聪明人在车库创业，”米德观察道。“靠着这种野蛮生长，我们确实取得了繁荣。”
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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.
而繁荣也靠了亚洲人。硅谷许多公司的工程师岗位大部分由东方人和亚裔美国人担任。中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师一批批地从加州的大学毕业。作为下一代创业公司的带头人，这些亚洲创新者可以依靠其习惯和语言，与重要的环太平洋市场建立更加紧密的联系。举例来说，来自中国香港的斯坦福大学的区博士，已经在中国台湾建厂，对日本在存储芯片市场上近乎垄断的地位提出了挑战。印度出生的N · 达莫德尔·雷迪在加州创办的小公司，获得密苏里州的融资支持，于去年春天重新启用了AT & T 位于堪萨斯城的一座芯片工厂。在硅谷还没变成退休养老村之前，它很可能成为建立全球商业的课堂。
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