[Eug-lug] Re: Concurrency

[Allen Brown]

walter fry wrote:
> 
>> A way to eliminate the power problem would be to switch to
>> a carbon substrate.  Diamond is an excellent thermal conductor.
>> And the resulting transistors can run at much higher temperatures
>> without melting
> 
>   I think that the thermal limit is diffusion of  dopants in geometric 
> configs. Also vapor epitaxi was used on ruby and Alumina both relativly 
> cheap and matching the thermal coefficient of expansion  of Si  -WF-

I'm referring to using diamond transistors.  Not layering Si
on top of diamond.

It won't happen tomorrow.
-- 
Allen Brown
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