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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2001 01:42:23 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@boostworks.com>, jgowdy@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium
Message-ID:  <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com>
References:  <20010417205711.C64757@cec.wustl.edu> <200104181422.f3IELwC11439@luxren2.boostworks.com> <20010426180836.C88522@peorth.iteration.net> <20010426192352.A2341@cec.wustl.edu> <20010427102622.D88522@peorth.iteration.net>

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"Michael C . Wu" wrote:
> I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college
> career.  One chemistry professor put it rather well, "Gallium
> Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of
> semiconductors, and always will be the future of semiconductors."

Hitachi has a GaAs SPARC chip; it is used in Satellites.

The CRAY-3 was GaAs based, if I'm not mistaken.

-- Terry

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