For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
有一段时间，由美国创造的、处于新计算机时代核心的半导体制造业似乎将成为下一个受害者。
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Semiconductors are strange materials.
半导体是奇特的材料。
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Software and services will do better than hardware or semiconductors.