List of semiconductor scale examples
The following is a list of semiconductor scale examples for various MOSFET semiconductor manufacturing process nodes.
Timeline of MOSFET demonstrations
PMOS and NMOS
CMOS (single-gate)
Multi-gate MOSFET (MuGFET)
Other types of MOSFET
Commercial products using micro-scale MOSFETs
Products featuring 20 μm manufacturing process
- RCA's CD4000 series of integrated circuits beginning in 1968.
Products featuring 10 μm manufacturing process
- Intel 4004, the first single-chip microprocessor CPU, launched in 1971.
- Intel 8008 CPU launched in 1972.
- MOS Technology 6502 1 MHz CPU launched in 1975.
Products featuring 8 μm manufacturing process
- Intel 1103, an early dynamic random-access memory chip launched in 1970.
Products featuring 6 μm manufacturing process
- Toshiba TLCS-12, a microprocessor developed for the Ford EEC system in 1973.
- Intel 8080 CPU launched in 1974 was manufactured using this process.
- The Television Interface Adaptor, the custom graphics and audio chip developed for the Atari 2600 in 1977.
- MOS Technology SID, a programmable sound generator developed for the Commodore 64 in 1982.
- MOS Technology VIC-II, a video display controller developed for the Commodore 64 in 1982.
Products featuring 3 μm manufacturing process
- Intel 8085 CPU launched in 1976.
- Intel 8086 CPU launched in 1978.
- Intel 8088 CPU launched in 1979.
- Motorola 68000 8 MHz CPU launched in 1979.
Products featuring 1.5 μm manufacturing process
- NEC's 64kb SRAM memory chip in 1981.
- Intel 80286 CPU launched in 1982.
- The Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture included chips such as Denise that were manufactured using a 1.5 μm CMOS process.
Products featuring 1 μm manufacturing process
- NTT's DRAM memory chips, including its 64kb chip in 1979 and 256kb chip in 1980.
- NEC's 1Mb DRAM memory chip in 1984.
- Intel 80386 CPU launched in 1985.
Products featuring 800 nm manufacturing process
- NTT's 1Mb DRAM memory chip in 1984.
- NEC and Toshiba used this process for their 4Mb DRAM memory chips in 1986.
- Hitachi, IBM, Matsushita and Mitsubishi Electric used this process for their 4Mb DRAM memory chips in 1987.
- Toshiba's 4Mb EPROM memory chip in 1987.
- Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Toshiba used this process for their 1Mb SRAM memory chips in 1987.
- Intel 486 CPU launched in 1989.
- microSPARC I launched in 1992.
- First Intel P5 Pentium CPUs at 60 MHz and 66 MHz launched in 1993.
Products featuring 600 nm manufacturing process
- Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and NEC introduced 16Mb DRAM memory chips manufactured with a 600nm process in 1989.
- NEC's 16Mb EPROM memory chip in 1990.
- Mitsubishi's 16Mb flash memory chip in 1991.
- Intel 80486DX4 CPU launched in 1994.
- IBM/Motorola PowerPC 601, the first PowerPC chip, was produced in 0.6 μm.
- Intel Pentium CPUs at 75 MHz, 90 MHz and 100 MHz.
Products featuring 350 nm manufacturing process
- Sony's 16Mb SRAM memory chip in 1994.
- NEC VR4300, used in the Nintendo 64 game console.
- Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium, and initial Pentium II CPUs.
- AMD K5 and original AMD K6 CPUs.
- Parallax Propeller, 8 core microcontroller.
Products featuring 250 nm manufacturing process
- Hitachi's 16Mb SRAM memory chip in 1993.
- Hitachi and NEC introduced 256Mb DRAM memory chips manufactured with this process in 1993, followed by Matsushita, Mitsubishi Electric and Oki in 1994.
- NEC's 1Gb DRAM memory chip in 1995.
- Hitachi's 128Mb NAND flash memory chip in 1996.
- DEC Alpha 21264A, which was made commercially available in 1999.
- AMD K6-2 Chomper and Chomper Extended. Chomper was released on May 28, 1998.
- AMD K6-III "Sharptooth" used 250 nm.
- Mobile Pentium MMX Tillamook, released in August 1997.
- Pentium II Deschutes.
- Dreamcast console's Hitachi SH-4 CPU and PowerVR2 GPU, released in 1998.
- Pentium III Katmai.
- Initial PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine CPU.
Processors using 180 nm manufacturing technology
- Intel Coppermine E- October 1999
- Sony PlayStation 2 console's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer – March 2000
- ATI Radeon R100 and RV100 Radeon 7000 – 2000
- AMD Athlon Thunderbird – June 2000
- Intel Celeron - May 2002
- Motorola PowerPC 7445 and 7455 - January 2002
Processors using 130 nm manufacturing technology
- Fujitsu SPARC64 V - 2001
- Gekko by IBM and Nintendo - 2001
- Motorola PowerPC 7447 and 7457 - 2002
- IBM PowerPC G5 970 - October 2002 - June 2003
- Intel Pentium III Tualatin and Coppermine - 2001-04
- Intel Celeron Tualatin-256 - 2001-10-02
- Intel Pentium M Banias - 2003-03-12
- Intel Pentium 4 Northwood- 2002-01-07
- Intel Celeron Northwood-128 - 2002-09-18
- Intel Xeon Prestonia and Gallatin - 2002-02-25
- VIA C3 - 2001
- AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred, Thorton, and Barton
- AMD Athlon MP Thoroughbred - 2002-08-27
- AMD Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred, Barton, and Dublin
- AMD Duron Applebred - 2003-08-21
- AMD K7 Sempron Thoroughbred-B, Thorton, and Barton - 2004-07-28
- AMD K8 Sempron Paris - 2004-07-28
- AMD Athlon 64 Clawhammer and Newcastle - 2003-09-23
- AMD Opteron Sledgehammer - 2003-06-30
- Elbrus 2000 1891ВМ4Я - 2008-04-27
- MCST-R500S 1891BM3 - 2008-07-27
- Vortex 86SX -
Commercial products using nano-scale MOSFETs
Chips using 90 nm manufacturing technology
- Sony/Toshiba Emotion Engine+Graphics Synthesizer - 2003
- IBM PowerPC G5 970FX - 2004
- Elpida Memory's - 2005
- IBM PowerPC G5 970MP - 2005
- IBM PowerPC G5 970GX - 2005
- IBM "Waternoose" Xbox 360 Processor - 2005
- IBM/Sony/ Toshiba Cell Processor - 2005
- Intel Pentium 4 Prescott - 2004-02
- Intel Celeron D Prescott-256 - 2004-05
- Intel Pentium M Dothan - 2004-05
- Intel Celeron M Dothan-1024 - 2004-08
- Intel Xeon Nocona, Irwindale, Cranford, Potomac, Paxville - 2004-06
- Intel Pentium D Smithfield - 2005-05
- AMD Athlon 64 Winchester, Venice, San Diego, Orleans - 2004-10
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 Manchester, Toledo, Windsor - 2005-05
- AMD Sempron Palermo and Manila - 2004-08
- AMD Turion 64 Lancaster and Richmond - 2005-03
- AMD Turion 64 X2 Taylor and Trinidad - 2006-05
- AMD Opteron Venus, Troy, and Athens - 2005-08
- AMD Dual-core Opteron Denmark, Italy, Egypt, Santa Ana, and Santa Rosa
- VIA C7 - 2005-05
- Loongson 2Е STLS2E02 - 2007-04
- Loongson 2F STLS2F02 - 2008-07
- MCST-4R - 2010-12
- Elbrus-2C+ - 2011-11
Processors using 65 nm manufacturing technology
- Sony/Toshiba EE+GS - 2005
- Intel Pentium 4 – 2006-01-16
- Intel Pentium D 900-series – 2006-01-16
- Intel Celeron D – 2006-05-28
- Intel Core – 2006-01-05
- Intel Core 2 – 2006-07-27
- Intel Xeon – 2006-03-14
- AMD Athlon 64 series – 2007-02-20
- AMD Turion 64 X2 series - 2007-05-07
- AMD Phenom series
- IBM's Cell Processor – PlayStation 3 – 2007-11-17
- IBM's z10
- Microsoft Xbox 360 "Falcon" CPU – 2007–09
- Microsoft Xbox 360 "Opus" CPU – 2008
- Microsoft Xbox 360 "Jasper" CPU – 2008–10
- Microsoft Xbox 360 "Jasper" GPU – 2008–10
- Sun UltraSPARC T2 – 2007–10
- AMD Turion Ultra – 2008-06
- TI OMAP 3 Family – 2008-02
- VIA Nano – 2008-05
- Loongson – 2009
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT GPU - 2007
Processors using 45 nm technology
- Matsushita released the 45 nm Uniphier in 2007.
- Wolfdale, Yorkfield, Yorkfield XE and Penryn are current Intel cores sold under the Core 2 brand.
- Intel Core i7 series processors, i5 750
- Pentium Dual-Core Wolfdale-3M are current Intel mainstream dual core sold under the Pentium brand.
- Diamondville, Pineview are current Intel cores with Hyper-Threading sold under the Intel Atom brand.
- AMD Deneb and Shanghai Quad-Core Processors, Regor dual core processors , Caspian mobile dual core processors.
- AMD "Thuban" Six-Core Processor
- Xenon in the Xbox 360 S model.
- Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine in PlayStation 3 Slim model – September 2009.
- Samsung S5PC110, as known as Hummingbird.
- Texas Instruments OMAP 36xx.
- IBM POWER7 and z196
- Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx series
- Espresso Wii U CPU
Chips using 32 nm technology
- Toshiba produced commercial 32Gb NAND flash memory chips with the 32nm process in 2009.
- Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, released in January 2010
- Intel 6-core processor, codenamed Gulftown
- Intel i7-970, was released in late July 2010, priced at approximately US$900
- AMD FX Series processors, codenamed Zambezi and based on AMD's Bulldozer architecture, were released in October 2011. The technology used a 32 nm SOI process, two CPU cores per module, and up to four modules, ranging from a quad-core design costing approximately US$130 to a $280 eight-core design.
- Ambarella Inc. announced the availability of the A7L system-on-a-chip circuit for digital still cameras, providing 1080p60 high-definition video capabilities in September 2011
Chips using 2624 nm technology
- Hynix Semiconductor announced that it could produce a 26 nm flash chip with 64 Gb capacity; Intel Corp. and Micron Technology had by then already developed the technology themselves. Announced in 2010.
- Toshiba announced that it was shipping 24 nm flash memory NAND devices on August 31, 2010.
Chips using 22 nm technology
- Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i5 processors based on Intel's Ivy Bridge 22 nm technology for series 7 chip-sets went on sale worldwide on April 23, 2012.
Chips using 20 nm technology
- Samsung Electronics began mass production of 64Gb NAND flash memory chips using a 20 nm process in 2010.
Chips using 16 nm technology
- TSMC first began 16nm FinFET chip production in 2013.
Chips using 14 nm technology
- Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i5 processors based on Intel's Broadwell 14 nm technology was launched in January 2015.
- AMD Ryzen processors based on AMD's Zen or Zen+ architectures and which uses 14 nm FinFET technology.
Chips using 10 nm technology
- Samsung announced that it had begun mass production of multi-level cell flash memory chips using a 10nm process in 2013. On 17 October 2016, Samsung Electronics announced mass production of SoC chips at 10 nm.
- TSMC began commercial production of 10 nm chips in early 2016, before moving onto mass production in early 2017.
- Samsung started shipping Galaxy S8 smartphone in April 2017 using the company's 10 nm processor.
- Apple delivered second-generation iPad Pro tablets powered with TSMC-produced Apple A10X chips using the 10 nm FinFET process in June 2017.
Chips using 7 nm technology
- TSMC began risk production of 256 Mbit SRAM memory chips using a 7 nm process in April 2017.
- Samsung and TSMC began mass production of 7 nm devices in 2018.
- Apple A12 and Huawei Kirin 980 mobile processors, both released in 2018, use 7 nm chips manufactured by TSMC.
Chips using 5 nm technology
- Samsung began production of 5 nm chips in late 2018.
- TSMC began production of 5 nm chips in April 2019.
3 nm technology
- TSMC and Samsung Electronics have announced plans to release 3nm devices during 20212022.