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Re: Silicon-germanium routers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Wed Jun 21 02:21:55 2006

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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:21:21 -0700
To: <tony.li@tony.li>
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On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Tony Li wrote:

> The breakthrough that we're looking for is a high speed, high density,
> low power transistor that can be commercially scaled with good yield.
> Not there quite yet.

In comparison to early-80s ECL, how do you think the scaling curve  
might match?  I haven't found much material yet that shows any  
realistic projections for speed and yield ramp up for the new stuff.

--lyndon

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