Currently,Hewlett-Packard,AT &T and other major manufacturers are using very large scale integration,VLSI,to pack hundreds-of-thou- sands of components on a single chip.

• 目前，惠普、AT&T和其他的大型制造厂家开始制造在一块芯片上能够集成数十万个元件的超大规模的集成电路(VLSI)。