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

木盒里没有晶体管，没有电线，也没有真空管。

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800亿个晶体管。

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

研究者希望晶体管是透明的、柔软的。

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

只有几毫米，它们里，但它们包含千个晶体管。

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

后通过晶体管传递声音，最后我们突间进入时代。

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管里，后是晶体管和后来更小的晶片。

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管的大小。

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

晶体管几乎可以制造得比世上最小的继电器和真空管还要小。

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

我们正努力使下一代晶体管成为比当前技术更好的器件。

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

但是算是现的电晶体 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，夸克、半导体、核酸和纳米管等 涌现的同时，出现一个问题。

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

解决个问题——以便于让晶体管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管所需的周期结构。

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

我们想做的是每个硅晶体管中的种燃料原子。

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十亿个晶体管，我们需要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管能透明、柔软。

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

我可以里向你展示一下，它们的内部只有几毫米大小，却包含成千上万个晶体管。

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

“1”和“0”代表晶体管的开关状态。

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

出门要带上手电筒, 电池，还有收音机。

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

晶体管的主要功能之一是开关电信号。