With microelectronics technology reducing the size of telecommunications devices, this is no paranoid fantasy any longer.

随着微电子科技不断把电子信息装置的体积缩小，上述情况已不再只是胡思乱想了。

James studied micro-beams and microelectronics, hoping to invent a new meter in meteorology.

詹姆士研究微光束和微电子学，希望能发明一种气象学的新仪表。

So a big goal for us is to develop materials that are simultaneously compatible with that kind of more mature established microelectronic hardware.

所以对我们而言极其重要的一个目标是研发材料, 同时兼容那种更成熟的微电子硬件。

In microelectronics, they use something called lithography to do the same sort of thing, to make the transistors and integrated circuits and build up a structure several times.

在微电子学中，人们使用相同原理的光刻技术，来制造晶体管和集成电路，反复构建一个结构。

The then Labour government decided that Britain needed a microelectronics industry and in 1978 invested ? 50m ($96m) in a stake in Inmos, a new venture with a design team in Bristol and a chip plant in Newport, South Wales.

当时由工党执政的英国政府坚定认为英国需要一个微电产业。于是，他们在1978年购买了Inmos公司价值5000万英镑（9600万美元）的股份。这家公司在布里斯托有一个设计小组，还在南威尔士的新港拥有一座芯片工厂。