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Article #20259Re: So, can you really fab 10**6 transistors now?
From: Ken Poulton
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 20:41
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 20:41
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> Failing that, are there any other > similarly sized chips that have made it out of the lab? Sure. In *1982*, HP presented (at ISSCC) a 32bit CPU with 450K transistors. It was fabbed in a 1.3um NMOS process. Yield was microscopic at the time of the paper, but soon came up to quite good levels. It was the CPU for the HP 9000 series 500, which I think we still sell. Ken Poulton poulton@hplabs
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