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With advances in CVD for diamonds, does anyone have an opinion if diamond will take any significant market share in the future as a new semi material and if so where will its place in the semi material world be?
FYI - Stanford has been doing research on diamond-based semiconductors for a few decades. This technology seems to be stuck in research, not reaching any critical commercial success yet.
Daniel, I know the cost has come down dramatically (200 to 1 and probably much more) and the process has gone through numerous improvements, could this be the factor that could/is changing the equation or is this even a factor in the research?
Arthur,
When I visit Akhan Semiconductor's web site the biggest issue that I find is no mention of customers, or design wins. This is almost still pure research stage technology.
Even Intel had a first product as a 1 Kb DRAM made with NMOS technology in 1969, then grew that up to a 64 Kb DRAM product line until the Japanese semiconductor companies came in a pushed Intel into a distance 4th place.
With advances in CVD for diamonds, does anyone have an opinion if diamond will take any significant market share in the future as a new semi material and if so where will its place in the semi material world be?
