[90909] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Silicon-germanium routers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Jun 20 16:02:32 2006
Reply-To: <tony.li@tony.li>
From: "Tony Li" <tli@tropos.com>
To: "'David W. Hankins'" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:59:54 -0700
In-reply-to: <20060620191853.GD4111@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> IBM and Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting
> with silicon-
> germanium, it is said here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/g26bu
>
> I find this interesting having just attended NANOG 37 where some
> manufacturers of network devices told us in a panel that network
> heat problems weren't going away unless there's a 'next big thing'
> in manufacturing process.
>
> Is this it?
Sure doesn't sound like it. In fact, it sound like they're pushing to a
high frequency regardless of the power and thermal consequences.
It also sounds like it's a single transistor. It takes a few of them to
make a router. ;-)
I also suspsect that the community is not ready to transition to
liquid-cooled systems.
Tony
