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To: Czechsinthemail who wrote (1632)9/18/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: John Finley   of 4710
 
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"What is your sense of how line shrinkage and copper technology are improving the cost/performance ratio of silicon relative to GaAs? "

Good questions. I don't know the answers but I do know that copper poisons Si readily. I don't know about GaAs. The copper contamination issue was a major roadblock to using it as an interconnect. I'm not sure how IBM got around that problem.

JF
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