10 µm process

Semiconductor manufacturing process March 2022 The 10 μm process (10 micrometer process) is the level of MOSFET semiconductor process technology that was commercially reached around 1971,Mueller S Microprocessors from 1971 to the Present informIT 2006-07-21 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=482324&seqNum=2 2012-05-11 Myslewski R Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004! TheRegister 2011-11-15 https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/11/15/the_first_forty_years_of_intel_microprocessors/ 2015-04-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20150419173435/http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/11/15/the_first_forty_years_of_intel_microprocessors/ 2015-04-19 live by companies such as RCA and Intel. The 10 μm process refers to the minimum size that could be reliably produced: the half-pitch, which is the distance between two 1-metal lanes, center to center, and the gate length of a transistor; those two values used to be identical in early nodes. The smallest transistors and other circuit elements on a chip made with this process were around 10 micrometers wide. Products featuring 10 μm manufacturing process RCA's CD4000 series of integrated circuits began with a 20μm process in 1968, before gradually downscaling and eventually reaching 10μm in the next several years.Lojek Bo History of Semiconductor Engineering 2007 Springer Science & Business Media 9783540342588 330 https://books.google.com/books?id=2cu1Oh_COv8C&pg=PA330 Intel 1103, an early dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip launched in 1970, used an 8μm process.Lojek Bo History of Semiconductor Engineering 2007 Springer Science & Business Media 9783540342588 362–363 https://books.google.com/books?id=2cu1Oh_COv8C&pg=PA362 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. Intel 4004 CPU launched in 1971 was manufactured using a 10μm process.History of the Intel Microprocessor - Listoid http://www.listoid.com/list/142 https://web.archive.org/web/20150427124729/http://www.listoid.com/list/142 2015-04-27 live 2015-04-19 Intel 8008 CPU launched in 1972 was manufactured using this process. References External links Brief timeline of microprocessor development https://web.archive.org/web/20120303084913/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/the_first_forty_years_of_intel_microprocessors/print.html 3 March 2012 20 μm process 6 μm process MOSFET semiconductor device fabrication process *10000 Category:1971 introductions