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From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui)
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Subject: Re: GaAs considered a dead end
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Date: 30 Nov 89 20:32:30 GMT
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GaAs cannot be a dead end. It is used quite a bit in microwave circuits,
and now you can get industry standard pin-out and function PALs from
Gazelle in GaAs. In telecom, especially in TDM digital fiber
transmission products, the serial<->parallel converters usually are done
using GaAs chips. There are alternatives, of course, but currently those
alternatives (in silicon) are _less_ mature than GaAs.


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