The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found
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From: Jan Panteltje on 26 May 2010 05:38 The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found: http://beforeitsnews.com/news/48/149/Semiconductor_Gallium_Arsenide_Twice_As_Efficient_As_Silicon_in_Solar_Power_Applications_Say_Illinois_Researchers.html Intel considers producing CPUs on the stuff. Now the THz processor? Multicore is dead ;-)
From: John Larkin on 26 May 2010 10:27 On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:38:57 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found: > http://beforeitsnews.com/news/48/149/Semiconductor_Gallium_Arsenide_Twice_As_Efficient_As_Silicon_in_Solar_Power_Applications_Say_Illinois_Researchers.html > >Intel considers producing CPUs on the stuff. > >Now the THz processor? >Multicore is dead ;-) Quit recycling these press-release "discoveries"... not 0.1% of them ever amount to anything. And multicore is surely the future, for reasons beyond device physics. The big reason is that programmers have demonstrated their inability to manage a single core system. John
From: John Larkin on 26 May 2010 20:17 On Wed, 26 May 2010 08:30:38 -0400, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote: >Jan Panteltje wrote: >> The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found: >> http://beforeitsnews.com/news/48/149/Semiconductor_Gallium_Arsenide_Twice_As_Efficient_As_Silicon_in_Solar_Power_Applications_Say_Illinois_Researchers.html >> >> Intel considers producing CPUs on the stuff. >> >> Now the THz processor? >> Multicore is dead ;-) >> > >Not till someone figures out how to make P-channel GaAs FETs that are >worth anything. Hole mobility in GaAs is pitiful. Building a modern >processor out of NMOS would make for rather interesting power >dissipation densities--i.e. the whole thing would turn to lava. > Easy. Do a 50 GHz, billion-transistor CPU in RTL. John
From: Jim Thompson on 26 May 2010 20:23 On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:17:33 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Wed, 26 May 2010 08:30:38 -0400, Phil Hobbs ><pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote: > >>Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found: >>> http://beforeitsnews.com/news/48/149/Semiconductor_Gallium_Arsenide_Twice_As_Efficient_As_Silicon_in_Solar_Power_Applications_Say_Illinois_Researchers.html >>> >>> Intel considers producing CPUs on the stuff. >>> >>> Now the THz processor? >>> Multicore is dead ;-) >>> >> >>Not till someone figures out how to make P-channel GaAs FETs that are >>worth anything. Hole mobility in GaAs is pitiful. Building a modern >>processor out of NMOS would make for rather interesting power >>dissipation densities--i.e. the whole thing would turn to lava. >> > >Easy. Do a 50 GHz, billion-transistor CPU in RTL. > >John With a static power of? What a stupid idea! ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: Jim Thompson on 26 May 2010 20:27
On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:23:43 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Wed, 26 May 2010 17:17:33 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 26 May 2010 08:30:38 -0400, Phil Hobbs >><pcdhSpamMeSenseless(a)electrooptical.net> wrote: >> >>>Jan Panteltje wrote: >>>> The next step: A way to produce flexible gallium arsenid wafers in quantity has been found: >>>> http://beforeitsnews.com/news/48/149/Semiconductor_Gallium_Arsenide_Twice_As_Efficient_As_Silicon_in_Solar_Power_Applications_Say_Illinois_Researchers.html >>>> >>>> Intel considers producing CPUs on the stuff. >>>> >>>> Now the THz processor? >>>> Multicore is dead ;-) >>>> >>> >>>Not till someone figures out how to make P-channel GaAs FETs that are >>>worth anything. Hole mobility in GaAs is pitiful. Building a modern >>>processor out of NMOS would make for rather interesting power >>>dissipation densities--i.e. the whole thing would turn to lava. >>> >> >>Easy. Do a 50 GHz, billion-transistor CPU in RTL. >> >>John > >With a static power of? What a stupid idea! > And a fundamental error... how does RTL work with MOS? ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy |