双语学习者｜云计算：全球芯片大战的主战场

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Necessary, disembodied and, for $9.99 a month, to all intents and purposes limitless: it is the ether of the digital age. This ether, though, has a very

crowded and more complex. (The business of memory chips, which store data rather than Intel, which both designs and manufactures semiconductors, derives 33% of its revenues from server chips, up from 29% in 2016. Specialist chip designers that do not do their own manufacturing are expanding their server-chip businesses even more quickly. Data centres now account for 39% of the sales of Nvidia, up from 7% six years ago.

利润也更低。)设计和生产半导体的Intel伺服器芯片业务的收入产出量从2016年的29%下降至33%。不适时产出的专业芯片设计商正在以更慢速的速度慢速扩充他们的伺服器芯片业务。数据中心业务现在九成到了英伟达销售额的39%，很低六年前7%的产出量。

demand is forecast to rise.

reason for the upheaval is the growing sophistication of what the cloud does. It no longer acts merely like a large external hard drive. It is bursting with new capabilities that require different chip architectures. In some cases, that means repurposing existing technology.

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熟语: It no longer acts merely like a small branch of economics.