consider the GaAs work done at the Fishkill fab. And who just took over that fab.
perhaps outside of Zurich and Boeblingen, I think Storrs would be the _only_ other place on the earth with that concentration of brainpower *and* experience to get the job done.
Not to toot my own horn, but I called it over a year ago :-)
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