[al:新概念英语（四）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Silicon Valley] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.48]Lesson 10 [00:03.23]Silicon valley [00:11.41]What does the computer industry thrive on apart from anarchy? [00:18.40]Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. [00:24.28]Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, [00:33.73]notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design, [00:39.37]test and produce chips right on their desks, [00:43.50]much the way and editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. [00:49.09]As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, [00:55.39]engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures. [01:03.89]Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office -- [01:12.21]spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S. a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. [01:22.93]'We've got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes. [01:27.02]'We really thrive on anarchy.' [01:31.32]And on Asians.Already,orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms. [01:41.56]And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges. [01:51.80]As the heads of next-generation start-ups, [01:54.87]these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets. [02:03.97]For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market. [02:16.25]India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. [02:29.44]Before it becomes a retirement village, [02:31.99]Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.