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中英文本
Manufacturing stumbles have cost it business. AMD, its most direct rival, outsources production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), whose technology is now ahead of Intel's. That means AMD's chips are generally faster, and consume less power; its market share has more than doubled since 2019.
芯片制造上的挫败使英特尔伤到元气
A second challenge is the industry’s growing specialisation—a problem for Intel’s traditional forte of general-purpose chips, especially if desktop pcs continue to stagnate. Technology giants, flush with cash and keen to extract every drop of performance for their specific purposes, increasingly design their own semiconductors. In 2020 Apple said it would drop Intel from its laptops and desktops in favour of custom-designed chips. Amazon is rolling out its “Graviton” cloud-computing processors, also designed in-house and made by TSMC. Microsoft, whose cloud business is second only to Amazon’s, is rumoured to be working on something similar.
英特尔面临的第二个挑战是芯片制造行业逐渐走向定制化,这是英特尔通用芯片(英特尔的传统王牌产品)所面临的问题,尤其是在台式电脑继续停滞不前的情况下
Intel has also failed to make any headway in smartphones, the most popular computers ever made. An effort in the late 1990s to build graphics chips, which have also proved handy for artificial intelligence (AI), and to which Nvidia owes its enviable valuation, petered out. Attempts to diversify into clever new sorts of programmable or memory chips—in 2015 it paid $16.7bn for Altera, which makes them—have so far not paid off in a big way.
英特尔在智能手机这一有史以来最受欢迎的计算机领域也未能取得任何进展
Mr Gelsinger has yet to say how he plans to deal with the challenges. He does not look like a revolutionary. He began working at Intel aged 18, before leaving in 2009 to preside over EMC, a data-storage firm, and for the past nine years heading VMware, a software firm. In an email to Intel’s staff after his appointment was announced he invoked its glory days, recalling being “mentored at the feet of Grove, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore”, the last two being the firm’s founders. Like them but unlike his predecessor, Bob Swan, Mr Gelsinger is an engineer, who in 1989 led the design of a flagship chip.
基尔辛格还没有说明他计划如何应对这些挑战
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词语解释
1. ahead of 领先于
It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.
我看见他领先于我就心里不痛快
。2. peter out 逐渐消失
And the influx of Asian students to America may peter out.
并且,亚洲学生的申请人数可能也会逐渐减少
。