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.

• 人们曾经一度感觉下一个在海外品牌面前全军畏没的似乎该轮到美国的半导体制造业了，而半导体，这崭新的计算机时代的核心，其发明者却正是美国人。