I have deliberately ignored and avoided all news regarding hardware for the past ten years. However unless the current generation hadware is using Gallium Arsenide or something similar then the industry definitely needs to take a second look at the situation. What is being used, silicon on sapphire or diamond surface deposition ?

There are or were plenty of hardware technologies available which could compete - check out Motorola, Texas Instruments, Zilog, Rockwell...

I will add one to the list of sayings.

If what you really need to do is fish in the deep blue sea, then if you are a hunter you should trade your big guns lock stock and barrel for 10 foot poles.