[crackmonkey] Seymour was right!

[Nick Moffitt]

(From http://www.nbnn.com/pubNews/123239.html)

		Just as importantly, Tatum says, the process for
	making photonic circuits is "consistent with current
	semiconductor fabrications -- it is silicon based, using
	materials like gallium arsenide that are not terribly exotic."

Seymour Cray is laughing in his grave right now.  The article is about
logic devices that use photons rather than electrons, gaining a
potential hundredfold speed increase from the clock.  It's just
amusing to see someone taking gallium arsenide for granted like this
that made me cheer.

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