RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: ibm vs poet?? The big leap for POET is at MS8
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Full integration of all elements on one chip. POET technology is ready for microprocessor applications.
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At this point POET replaces silicon CMOS with HFET gates in GaAs which are much faster and have a much higher energy efficiency than silicon gates.
Just a bit from the last news release:
After years of increasingly successful development, the fabrication of the first vertical cavity laser (VCL) utilizing ODIS's patented POET GaAs III-V technology is a significant success. Incremental progress over the years has led to what many consider to be the next phase of semiconductor development, which is to surpass the capabilities of complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology for the next generation of high-speed, low-power applications. It is now widely believed that CMOS technology advances have reached a saturation point.
The new laser serves as the basis for chip-to-chip interconnection and complements numerous other optoelectronic devices already demonstrated by ODIS -- including heterostructure field effect transistors (HFET), optical thyristors, pulsed lasers and superradiant light-emitting devices -- all able to be monolithically fabricated through the POET process.