There were no transistors in the box, no wires or tubes.

木有晶体，有电线，也有真空。

One of its recent products, the H100 GPU, has 80 billion transistors.

其最新产品之一H100图形处理单元拥有800亿个晶体。

He says researchers want transistors to be seen through and soft.

研究者希望晶体是透明的、柔软的。

Just a few millimeters, they're inside here, yet they contain thousands of transistors.

只有几毫米，它们就在这，但它们包含了数千个晶体。

And you go on through transistors. And suddenly you are in the digital age.

后通过晶体传递声音，最后我们突间进入了数码时代。

First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips.

开始记忆被存放于电子，后是晶体和后来更小的晶片。

The key metrics of the performance of the chips actually the size of the transistors.

衡量芯片性能的关键指标实际上是晶体的大小。

Almost immediately, transistors could be made smaller than the smallest possible relays or vacuum tubes.

晶体几乎可以制造得比世上最小的继电器和真空小。

We are trying to make the next generation transistors better devices than current technologies.

我们正在努力使下一代晶体成为比当前技术更好的器件。

But even a present-day transistor operates at the Gigahertz.

但是就算是现在的电晶体 都以千兆赫的频率运行。

Yet, nestling amid the quarks and transistors and the nucleic acids and nanotubes, there is a question.

而，就在夸克、半导体、核酸和纳米等 涌现的同时，出现了一个问题。

Cracking this problem—so that transistors can act as their own non-volatile memory—would make all computers faster.

解决这个问题——以便于让晶体使用自身的非易失性半导体存储器——将会让所有的电脑运行速度更快。

We want to use self-assembling materials to naturally form the periodic structures that we need for our transistors.

我们希望使用自组装材料来自地形成晶体所需的周期结构。

We are talking about this fuel atoms in each silicon transistor.

我们想做的是每个硅晶体中的这种燃料原子。

And because there are billions of transistors in our circuit, we need an almost molecularly perfect system.

也因为我们的电路中有数十亿个晶体，我们需一个几乎完美的分子系统。

He says researchers want transistors to be see through and soft.

他说研究者希望晶体能透明、柔软。

I can just show you here, just a few millimeters they're inside here, yet they contain thousands of transistors.

我可以在这向你展示一下，它们的内部只有几毫米大小，却包含了成千上万个晶体。

Ones and zeroes representing the on and off states of the transistor.

“1”和“0”代表晶体的开关状态。

Get your batteries out to get your flashlights out, to get your transistor radio out.

出门带上手电筒, 电池，有收音机。

One of the main functions of a transistor is to switch an electrical signal on and off.

晶体的主功能之一是开关电信号。