[TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

[Jim Ray]

Beware of folks that use Cuisinart to fabricate semiconductors. They
might use the rapid thermal anneal for their grilled cheese sandwich...



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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of James Brigman
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:08 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

Preach it brutha. You da man. 

But beware the equipment with the low-voltage, hi current power
supplies! Beware! Beeee-waeeeerrrrrr!...

JKB

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:16 -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
> I had one heck of a time chunking boron, phosphorous and silicon in my
Cuisinart and coming out with a semiconductor yet seem to remember a
threshold of 0.7 V due to semiconductor physics (nevermind is it a wave
or particle). The trend I have seen is a lowering of the voltage such
that the transistors do not go as far into saturation as they used to go
years gone by when 5V was popular.
> 
> I suspect we will continue to see a lowering of the voltage,
increasing of the speed and lowering of the power on a
transistor-by-transistor basis.
> 
> Reliability, however, is determined more by statistics following
semiconductor fabrication more so than voltage of a power supply.
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Jim
>  
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