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Article #20277Re: So, can you really fab 10**6 transistors now?
From: Mike Loving
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 21:56
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1989 21:56
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In article <62230001@hpl-opus.HP.COM> poulton@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Ken Poulton) writes:
>> 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
Two things to be said about this:
a) there were 9k words of 38 bit microcode on the chip - thus there were
about 360 k fets in ucode.
b) 1.3u process? the minimum feature size was 1u the minimum drawn channel
length was a little bit more.
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