1·Chipmakers are also getting into the act.
芯片制造商也在行动。
2·Chipmakers began cutting back in late 2008 in response to overcapacity and the recession.
为了应对产能过剩和经济衰退，芯片制造商2008年底开始削减产能。
3·To reach the economies of scale needed to make such investments pay, chipmakers must build bigger fabs.
为了达到规模经济以抵消大量的前期投入，芯片制造商必须建造更大的晶圆厂。
4·TSMC also illustrates a corollary of Moore's Second Law: even the biggest chipmakers must keep expanding.
台积电还表明了摩尔第二定律的必然结果：即使最大的芯片制造商也必须保持扩张。
5·The flip side is that chipmakers have come to depend increasingly on the health of the rest of the economy.
另一面，芯片制造商也日益依赖于其它经济方面的健康状态。
6·But chipmakers are unlikely to be able to extract a disproportionate rent or restrict supply-or even to try.
但芯片制造商们不可能提取不成比例租金或限制供应，或甚至尝试。
7·Silicon producers, whose biggest customers were always chipmakers, have been slow to cater to the solar industry.
硅的生产厂商，过去其最大客户一直是芯片制造商，已经开始慢慢迎合太阳能产业。
8·With chipmakers trying to muscle in on each other'sterritory, competition in the industry is suddenly heating up.
芯片制造商们纷纷向对手的领域扩张，该产业的竞争骤然热化。
9·With chipmakers trying to muscle in on each other's territory, competition in the industry is suddenly heating up.
随着不同的芯片制造商努力挤入彼此的领域，行业间的竞争突然变的激烈起来。
10·And since 2004 the profitability of chip firms has dropped steadily as many chipmakers have lowered prices to expand their markets.
并且从2004年，由于很多芯片制造商降低价格扩大市场，使得芯片企业的收益率平稳下降。