Gallium nitride is about to disrupt silicon?

Re:Gallium nitride is about to disrupt silicon? by wolfgke on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:26PM (#11426882)

If Gallium nitride would really replace silicon for computer chips and the chips are really better, this would be an evolutionary step in the chip production, but not a disruption. A disruptive innovation (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disruptive_innova...) is characterized to create "a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leaders and alliances.". This clearly isn't the case here.

TLDR: Dear tech journalists, stop putting bullshit words into headlines and articles if you don't know their meanings.

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Re:Gallium nitride is about to disrupt silicon? by marshray on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:44PM (#11426968)

I think if you consider the many tens or even hundreds of $B currently invested in Si foundry tooling which could be obsoleted by this transition the word 'disruptive' is appropriate.

However, the semiconductor industry seems uniquely well suited to handle this as they seem to coordinate their already highly disruptive process steps across much of the industry. E.g. https://www.bing.com/search?q=Intel%20Samsung%20TSMC%20reach...

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