《中英對照讀新聞》ARM CTO Predicts Chips the Size of Blood Cells 安謀技術長預測晶片大小將有如血球細胞
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In less than a decade, that smartphone you’re holding could have 32 times the memory, 20 times the bandwidth and a microprocessor core no bigger than a red blood cell, the CTO of chip design company ARM said on Thursday.
再過不到10年,你手拿的智慧手機可能有32倍記憶容量、20倍頻寬,以及1個不會比紅血球細胞大的微處理器核心,晶片設計公司安謀的技術長週四說。
ARM has already helped develop a prototype, implantable device for monitoring eye-pressure in glaucoma patients that measures just 1 cubic millimeter, CTO Mike Muller said at ARM’s TechCon conference in Silicon Valley Thursday. The device includes a microprocessor sandwiched between sensors at the top and a battery at the bottom.
安謀已協助開發出一個偵測青光眼病患眼壓的植入性裝置原型,大小只有1立方毫米,技術長麥克.穆勒週四在矽谷舉辦安謀TechCon大會上說。該裝置包含了一顆微處理器,夾在上端感應器與底部一個電池之間。
Strip away those extra components, rearrange the transistors into a cube and apply the type of advanced manufacturing process expected in 2020, and you’d end up with a device that occupies about the same volume as a blood cell, Muller said.
拿掉這些多餘元件,把電晶體重整成一個立方體,再應用預期2020年出現的那種先進製程,結果就能打造出一個所占容積跟一個血球約同樣大小的裝置,穆勒說。
ARM designs the processor cores used in most of today’s smartphones and tablets, and smaller cores are generally more energy efficient, he said. That helps to extend battery life.
安謀設計的處理器核心為今日大多數智慧手機、平板電腦所使用,較小的核心通常較節能,他說。那有助於延長電池使用時間。
That’s a good thing, because battery technology is advancing much more slowly, and Muller expects only a two-fold improvement in battery performance by the end of the decade.
那是件好事,因為電池科技進展速度緩慢許多,穆勒預測到了本十年末,電池效能只會有兩倍的改善。
新聞辭典
CTO:為Chief Technology Officer 的縮寫,技術長,又常稱為首席技術官、科技長。
be sandwiched between something and something:被夾在兩個東西中間。例句:The tiny kingdom was sandwiched between Austria and Czechoslovakia.(這個小王國夾處在奧地利與捷克斯洛伐克之間。)
end up:片語,結束、告終。例句:Wasteful people usually end up in debt.(浪費的人最後往往負債。)
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