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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (92039)2/8/2000 8:46:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (1) of 1576881
 
Bill - <Where does GaAs stand as a CPU material for an item of the complexity of the Athlon/P-III and what are it's prospects?>

As far as I know, GaAs is nowhere on the near term radar screen for high volume MPU manufacturing.

I defer to a device physicist for coherent explanations on why GaAs is unsuitable. I can think of some draw backs wrt manufacturing: 1) wafers are very brittle, and 2) expense. I'm sure there are more reasons than this.

PB
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