The 3 μm process is the level of

MOSFET The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which d ...

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that was reached around 1977, by leading semiconductor companies such as

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Products featuring 3 μm manufacturing process

* Intel's 8085, 8086, 8088 CPU's launched in 1976, 1978, 1979, respectively, were manufactured using its 3.2 μm NMOS (

HMOS In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier NMOS (n-type metal-oxide semiconductor) logic families that needed more than one different power supply v ...

) process. . *

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's 4 kbit HM6147 SRAM memory chip, launched in 1978, introduced the twin-well

CMOS Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss", ) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFE ...

process, at 3 μm. *

Motorola 68000 The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ...

(MC68000) CPU, launched in 1979, was originally fabricated using an HMOS process with a 3.5 μm feature size. * The

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was launched in 1985 and manufactured on a 3μm process.

References

*03000 Computer-related introductions in 1975 {{nano-tech-stub