10 µm process

Semiconductor manufacturing process

Semiconductor device fabrication

MOSFET scaling (process nodes)
020 µm – 1968 010 µm – 1971 006 µm – 1974 003 µm – 1977 1.5 µm – 1981 001 µm – 1984 800 nm – 1987 600 nm – 1990 350 nm – 1993 250 nm – 1996 180 nm – 1999 130 nm – 2001 090 nm – 2003 065 nm – 2005 045 nm – 2007 032 nm – 2009 028 nm – 2010 022 nm – 2012 014 nm – 2014 010 nm – 2016 007 nm – 2018 005 nm – 2020 003 nm – 2022
Future 002 nm ~ 2024
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The 10 μm process (10 micron smallest dimension) 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.

Products featuring 10 μm manufacturing process

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.^[3]
Intel 1103, an early dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip launched in 1970, used an 8 μm process.^[4]
Intel 4004 CPU launched in 1971 was manufactured using a 10 μm process.^[5]
Intel 8008 CPU launched in 1972 was manufactured using this process.^[5]

^ 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 19 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
^ 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.