At that time, the business centered on the production of chips built to support high-level graphics operations.

当时，该公司的业务集中在生产支持高级图形操作的芯片上。

For instance, modern computer processors now have special circuits for things like graphics operations, decoding compressed video, and encrypting files - all of which are operations that would take many many many clock cycles to perform with standard operations.

例如，现代计算机处理器现在有专门的电路来处理图形操作、解码压缩视频和加密文件等操作——所有这些操作都需要很多很多时钟周期来执行标准操作。