RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Should be last week of drilling the YukonIf your comment was posted five years ago, I would not have agreed more. However, given the physical limitations of silicon wrt overheating and the fact that germanium can withstand clocking rates a magnitude faster with less cooling required the outlook for germanium demand is changing. I don't think the Chinese would make a difference going forward. It's one thing to use silicon chips over germanium chips when an Intel CPU cost three or $400. But when NVDIA is selling processors for fifty thousand or $60,000 per unit, the cost of germanium while expensive is proportionally a fraction of the overall cost and could be justified as a superior substrate material. The past decades had germanium's use relegated to fiber optics, solar panels, and night vision goggles. I suspect the future will be dominated by chip manufacturing which is ever increasing with AI advancements.