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> > GaAs is 10-100 times faster than Silicon.
> 
> [...description of some of GaAs's details and problems...]

Perhaps a year ago there was an excellent survey article in Science --
if enough people are interested, I'll dig out a precise reference -- on
the fundamental device technologies underlying computers.  It discussed
the basic requirements for a good computing technology, and then spent
some time explaining why silicon is still king and many supposedly
superior technologies have fallen by the wayside.  It is pessimistic
about large-scale replacement of silicon by any of the major competitors
visible now, including GaAs.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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