“…Nobody designed in Germanium after about 1965, but the last supplier of Germanium devices that I could find expired in the 1980s, so it is safe to assume GaAs will be with us for some time, but if I was a betting man I would not be betting on it for new designs much further into the future. This is a prediction, dear reader, not a deduction, but you heard it from me first [7].…”