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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (1235)5/23/2000 8:58:00 AM
From: Dr. Mitchell R. White   of 1305
 
Thanks for the informative pass-through, Jim. Since I don't intend to retire from this industry for at least another decade (more likely two), it's nice to know that folks are working hard to keep it going forward.

IBM's (expected) announcement yesterday was nice too, demonstrating all-copper wiring in circuits built on SOI (Silicon on Insulator) wafers. SOI is another way to wring more economic benefit out of silicon in the future.

SiGe is next, in my opinion. This stuff has speed advantages (and conduction ones as well) over simple Si, without sacrificing all the physical properties that Si wafers give us. We need the physical strength for processing, of course. If we didn't, then I think germanium would be playing a larger role in the electronics ecosystem....

Mitch
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