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The 10 μm process is the level of MOSFET semiconductor process technology that was commercially reached around 1971,[1][2] by leading semiconductor companies such as RCA and Intel.
In 1960, Egyptian-American engineer Mohamed M. Atalla and Korean-American engineer Dawon Kahng, while working at Bell Labs, demonstrated the first MOSFET transistors with 20 μm and then 10 μm gate lengths.[3][4] In 1969, Intel introduced the 1101 MOS SRAM chip with a 12 μm process.[5][6][7]
Products featuring 10 μm manufacturing process[edit]
- RCA's CD4000 series of integrated circuits began with a 20 μm process in 1968, before gradually downscaling and eventually reaching 10 μm in the next several years.[8]
- Intel 1103, an early dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip launched in 1970, used an 8 μm process.[9]
- Intel 4004 CPU launched in 1971 was manufactured using a 10 μm process.[10]
- Intel 8008 CPU launched in 1972 was manufactured using this process.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Mueller, S (21 July 2006). "Microprocessors from 1971 to the Present". informIT. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
- ^ Myslewski, R (15 November 2011). "Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004!". TheRegister. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Lojek, Bo (2007). History of Semiconductor Engineering. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 321–3. ISBN 9783540342588.
- ^ Voinigescu, Sorin (2013). High-Frequency Integrated Circuits. Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780521873024.
- ^ "A chronological list of Intel products. The products are sorted by date" (PDF). Intel museum. Intel Corporation. July 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
- ^ "1970s: SRAM evolution" (PDF). Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ Pimbley, J. (2012). Advanced CMOS Process Technology. Elsevier. p. 7. ISBN 9780323156806.
- ^ Lojek, Bo (2007). History of Semiconductor Engineering. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 330. ISBN 9783540342588.
- ^ Lojek, Bo (2007). History of Semiconductor Engineering. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 362–363. ISBN 9783540342588.
The i1103 was manufactured on a 6-mask silicon-gate P-MOS process with 8 μm minimum features. The resulting product had a 2,400 μm, 2 memory cell size, a die size just under 10 mm2, and sold for around $21.
- ^ a b "History of the Intel Microprocessor - Listoid". Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
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| Preceded by 20 μm process |
MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication process | Succeeded by 6 μm process |