Assertion: germanium | /r/HasProperty | replaced by silicon
Facets:
value: at the beginning of the 1960s
type: TEMPORAL
value: largely
type: DEGREE
value: quickly
type: MANNER
value: in semiconducting devices
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Germanium has largely been replaced by silicon in semiconducting devices, being cheaper, more resilient at higher operating temperatures, and easier to work during the microelectronic fabrication process.
text: Historically, germanium was the semiconductor that initiated the electronics revolution, but it was quickly replaced by silicon at the beginning of the 1960s.