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To: JMD who wrote (11701)	6/22/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Wow Mike I thought that your surroundings at MIT would at least raise your technological knowedge by a few points but this is rediculous. I am sure that you know all about what I am going to post so you don't need to read it and in fact I am a little ashamed to mention stuff that is so trivial but whatever. This SiGe process is exactly what the wireless industry has been looking for. In the past if you wanted to improve on the performance of Si you had to go to GaAs. Now as I am sure the surfer knows the process used to make GaAs chips is 1) Extremely toxic, and 2) Not very reliable (high defect rate). If IBM can supply an alternative that makes gains like they say it does then I am sure that the current foundry deals that QCOM has with them will be vaporized and they will want this stuff for all of their new chips. The small problem (currently) with the Dick Tracy thing is that as electronics (especially stuff that is intentionally radiating) get smaller you get more and more cross talk and interferance. Until we solve that problem there are no Dick Tracy watches in the future! As I said I am sure that you knew all of this stuff and Madge has been retired, but I suppose I just had to pet my ego a little now that you have been confirmed the Tech Guru or Tech Gnu or whatever you have been confirmed as. Have a spiffy night :)