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Semiconductors 半导体 Chipping in 芯片技术集资 A deal to keep Moore s law alive 一场交易使得摩尔定律劫后余生 THE arrival of a new generation of semiconductors has come a little closer. 新一代半导体诞生的日子离我们又近了一些。 On July 9th ASML, a Dutch company that dominates the market for the lithographicequipment that etches circuits onto silicon, struck a deal with Intel, the world s largestchipmaker. 7月9号，荷兰公司阿斯麦与全球最大的芯片制造商英特尔签订了一份协议。阿斯麦因拥有光刻设备将电路刻蚀在硅片上的技术而控制着大多数市场。 Intel has agreed to pay about 2.5 billion for 15% of ASML. 因特尔同意以25亿欧元收购阿斯麦15%的股份。 It will provide 829m for ASML sresearch-and-development efforts and will buy the resulting tools, due in a few years. Intel将为阿斯麦的研发活动投资8.29亿欧元，并在未来几年购买其研发产品。 ASML has also been talking to its two other biggest customers, Samsung and TaiwanSemiconductor Manufacturing Corporation. It is willing to sell 25% of itself in all. | 
