Fujitsu Ltd says it has successfully implemented of the world’s fastest Gallium Arsenide gate array. The chip, manufactured in 0.5 micron process technology, has a propagation delay of 50pS per gate. It is intended for use in supercomputers and high-speed optical communications, such as in broad-band ISDN, multimedia and high-definition television. Orders will be taken for the new series of chips from June this year. The new series, called the GG11 series, will replace the Fury series, which Fujitsu has been fabricating under licence from Vitesse Semiconductor Corp, Camarillo, California and consists of six types, with between 10,000 gates and 25,000 gates. Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month.
