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To: mauser96 who wrote (1792)	2/4/2000 3:16:00 AM
From: mtnlady	Respond to of 10713

Lucius you bring up some great points about blue lasers being 4x the storage capacity. Uses for such storage boggle the mind but DS can tell you all about storage needs and the Internet. Booming to say the least. Video images for sure are a great use for such a device (a movie on a miniature disk - or hundreds of movies on a larger device). What I think the future for such devices are two fold. One your miniaturization scenario and second for 'juke boxes' that could contain huge amounts of data and images for Internet servers. And what of the e-books we have been discussing on the GK thread? Just what an app needs. A huge amount of storage on a very little device. Now if CREE can just 'let go' enough to license the technology to others to mfg. SiC we might get somewhere! I get the feeling CREE is like the parent who didn't want to let the 'child' go. i.e. CREE is concerned about the competition and is still trying to mfg. all the SiC themselves which is causing a bottleneck in building the value chains around SiC (my opinion only).

To: mauser96 who wrote (1792)	2/4/2000 12:44:00 PM
From: Guy Gordon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10713

CD's use IR lasers, and hold about 650Mb of data. DVD's use red lasers, and hold about 4.7Gb of data. The advantage of a blue laser would be that you could make a new disk that would hold maybe 20Gb of data. This will be needed to store HDTV movies. However, please note that Cree does not yet have a commercial solid state blue laser. Nobody does. I believe Cree is several years behind the Japanese in their blue laser research. We can only hope that when they do figure out how to make one, that SiC turns out to be an advantageous substrate.