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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (92051)	2/8/2000 2:45:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1576600

Pravin, I see, Si has had so many more years to mature and GaAs devices are fast, but primitive. I see mentions here and there running at 50 Ghz and up as small logic devices, prescalers, missile logic etc where high speed is and absolute need. From the scarcity of Ga it could never fill the need anyway even if they made a large CPU from it. From what I can see 99.9% Ga is worth about $250-300 per pound. It would need to be compounded with As, refined and made into wafers, so it would be costly indeed. Thanks. Bill