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From: terry@sunquest.UUCP (Terry Friedrichsen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Clock Rates
Keywords: fast   gates   references
Message-ID: <1106@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 06:29:44 GMT
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson
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In article <7076@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
> Beyond
> HEMT is a zoo of proposed exotic devices: unipolar tunnelling
> transistors, quantam dots, and the like. There is one thing that is
> sure: today's Y-MP gates aren't the last word in speed.
>
> Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science

Could you do me (and perhaps many others in comp.arch) a favor, if it's
convenient, and post some references to these "proposed exotic devices"?
Sounds like interesing reading (I GOTTA find out what a "quantum dot" is!).

Terry R. Friedrichsen
TERRY@SDSC.EDU	(alternate address; I live and work in Tucson)

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