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.
这是一份相当不错的圣诞礼物。去年12月，荷兰科技公司阿斯麦(ASML)开始向俄勒冈运送250个货箱，安装一台价值3.5亿欧元的机器，供美国芯片制造商英特尔使用。这台名为Twinscan Exe: 5000的机器可能是有史以来最复杂的设备。它的重量相当于两架空客(Airbus)A320飞机，研发历时十年，明年将需要250名工程师使其投入运行。
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