It was quite the Christmas present. In December, the Dutch technology company ASML started shipping 250 crates to Oregon to install a €350mn machine for the US chipmaker Intel. The Twinscan Exe: 5000, to give the machine its full name, is probably the most complex piece of equipment ever built. Weighing as much as two Airbus A320 jets, it took a decade to develop and will require 250 engineers to make it operational next year.
這是一份相當不錯的圣誕禮物。去年12月，荷蘭科技公司阿斯麥(ASML)開始向俄勒岡運送250個貨箱，安裝一臺價值3.5億歐元的機器，供美國芯片制造商英特爾使用。這臺名為Twinscan Exe: 5000的機器可能是有史以來最復雜的設備。它的重量相當于兩架空客(Airbus)A320飛機，研發歷時十年，明年將需要250名工程師使其投入運行。
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