| 1 | The company pioneered the use of the silicon chip. | |
| 2 | Normally silicon wafers are cut from a larger piece of silicon. | |
| 3 | China now produces one-third of the world's silicon wafers. | |
| 4 | It is, simply, alien, operating at the natural scale of silicon, not neurons and synapses. | |
| 5 | Making integrated circuits involves depositing layers of materials such as semiconductors and metals on a silicon wafer. |