Digital BW, The Print

At 04:47 PM 12/31/2003, you wrote:
>Actually the US Department of defense was working with industry in the
>late 60's to develop the gallium arsenate technology (amoung others). It
>was one technology that showed promise in developing faster super
>computers. The issue with it is it is a power hog - and heat producer.
>It is used in many RF applications and it is the only technology that
>can support very high bandwidth (>= GHz) analogue to digital converters.

It used to  be said that "Gallium arsenide is the wave of the future in 
semiconductor technology; always has been; always will be."

:-)

Stan

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