2021届河北衡水高中英语经济学人外刊新高考培优讲义[03-19]作文素材阅读理解语法词汇拓展积累

2021年河北衡水高中英语《经济学人》外刊新高考培优讲义[03-19] 作文素材阅读理解语法词汇拓展积累 （含词汇讲解、长难句解析、翻译技巧、背景知识、写作积累：均由阿满编写） 原文（续[03-18]） Each firm is approaching the problem differently. Baidu, the Chinese giant, is trying to create a self-driving-car operating system, much like Google’s Android in mobile devices (although it is unclear how it plans to make money). Alphabet has its own autonomous-car effort, as do Uber, Tesla, an electric carmaker, a herd of little-known startups and, increasingly, established carmakers. (Apple is rumoured to have scaled back its car ambitions.)   各家公司都在以不同的方式发展无人驾驶技术。中国科技巨头百度正在试图建立一个无人驾驶汽车操作系统，很像谷歌在移动设备上的安卓系统（虽然目前还不清楚百度打算如何利用这一系统赚钱）。Alphabet在研发自己的无人驾驶汽车；优步、电动汽车制造商特斯拉、一群不知名的创业公司，以及越来越多的传统汽车制造商也都有这方面的项目。（据传苹果减少了对汽车项目的投资）。   Self-driving cars are just one example of how technology firms’ AI strategies are pushing beyond the virtual world of software into hardware. Many companies, including Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft, are also investing to build specialised, powerful “AI chips” that can power their various activities. These will compete with those made by NVIDIA, a tech firm that has built an empire on powerful chips used in various AI realms, such as autonomous cars and virtual reality.   在AI战略的引领下，科技公司正冲出软件的虚拟世界，向硬件领域迈进，无人驾驶汽车只是其中一个例子。 Alphabet、苹果和微软等许多公司也都在致力于生产强大的专用“AI芯片”驱动它们的各种应用。这些芯片将与英伟达 (NVIDIA) 公司的产品竞争，这家科技公司已建立起一个芯片帝国，其性能强大的芯片已经运用于无人驾驶汽车和虚拟现实等各种AI领域。   It is unclear whether the likes of Alphabet and Apple will sell these chips to rival firms or keep them for themselves. They have an incentive to use their innovations to improve their own services, rather than renting or selling them to rivals—which could become a problem if it means a very few firms develop a meaningful advantage in brute computing power.   目前还不清楚Alphabet和苹果等公司是会将这些AI芯片出售给竞争对手还是仅供自用。它们有动力利用自己的创新改善自身的服务，而不出租或销售给对手。但如果留作自用会导致仅有极少数公司能通过强大的计算机能力获得重大优势，可能就会成为一个问题。   词汇讲解 · Each firm is approaching the problem differently. approach表示着手处理（事务﹑难题等），常带有通过特别的方法或途径的意味。(to begin to deal with a situatio