And a chip fabrication plant isn't as easy to relocate as an apparel factory.

一家芯片制造厂并不像一家服装厂那么容易搬迁。

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once the company is happy with the design of a wafer fabrication plant, it will “copy it exactly” in its other locations, says Professor Hargadon, “down to the paint on the wall.

一旦公司对某家晶圆生产工厂的设计表示满意，它就在另一个地点“照样复制”，哈格顿教授说，“一直具体到墙壁的涂料”。

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SCOPE OF SERVICES: Receiving, unloading, stacking, internal transport, Fabrication and erection, brick laying, alignment, commissioning of coke oven project plant &equipment.

服务范围：收货，卸货，堆放，场内运输，现场制作及安装，焦炉砌筑，校正，焦炉及设备的试车。

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Investors fumed when Alphatec announced in February it would buy a controlling stake in Submicron, a wafer-fabrication plant owned by Chaarn.

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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest producer of memory chips, closed its wafer-fabrication plant and gave its employees one week off to enjoy sun and sand.

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Critics complain that no one makes anything in Silicon Valley anymore, a two-decade-long gripe that arcs from Apple s decision to shut down its Fremont, California factory in 1992 through Intel s shuttering of its last Silicon Valley chip-fabrication plant in 2009.

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