Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The Amazing, Humble Silicon Wafer" video.

  1. In the category of alternative materials to silicon, unmentioned are diamond (carbon) and gallium arsenide. There was also a vogue for sapphire as a base material (coating of the wafer prior to patterning), which if this old man recalls was SOS or Silicon on Sapphire.
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  2. At the risk of being politically incorrect, the west's ability to make the rocks come alive and attack enemies in the middle east is like something right out of the Koran.
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