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In Reply to: Re: Thanks. posted by kurt s on June 26, 2003 at 21:52:37:
were not designed for high-end audio. Telephone and early motion picture sound was poor by today's standards. Ruggedness and economy were the prime objectives of early electronic audio system design, and the old tubes had to support them.You are right that most device design effort these days goes into making sub-100nm MOSFET transistors that can withstand only a volt or so, to reduce size and power consumption of portable applications. However, the tools developed for the mainstream make it relatively easy to design and fabricate better quality power devices. The digital world still needs to interface with actuators and transducers, so there will always be effort towards making new and interesting power devices.
I even have hopes the present recession in technology is really the onset of saturation in transistor scaling, so that devices will have longer application lives because it will be too expensive to make them any smaller. This is a selfish wish from an old person: the general consequences of saturation in scaling will be about as profound as the consequences of the coming peak in world petroleum output.
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