The 10 μm process (10 micrometer process) is the level of

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semiconductor process technology that was commercially reached around 1971, by companies such as

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and

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. The 10 μm process refers to the minimum size that could be reliably produced: the ''half-pitch'', which is the distance between two 1-metal lanes, center to center, and the ''gate length'' of a transistor; those two values used to be identical in early nodes. The smallest transistors and other circuit elements on a chip made with this process were around 10 micrometers wide.

Products featuring 10 μm manufacturing process

's CD4000 series of

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s began with a 20μm process in 1968, before gradually downscaling and eventually reaching 10μm in the next several years. * Intel 1103, an early

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(DRAM) chip launched in 1970, used an 8μm process. *

Intel 4004 The Intel 4004 was part of the 4 chip MCS-4 micro computer set, released by the Intel, Intel Corporation in November 1971; the 4004 being part of the first commercially marketed microprocessor chipset, and the first in a long line of List of I ...

CPU launched in 1971 was manufactured using a 10μm process. *

Intel 8008 The Intel 8008 ("''eight-thousand-eight''" or "''eighty-oh-eight''") is an early 8-bit microprocessor capable of addressing 16 KB of memory, introduced in April 1972. The 8008 architecture was designed by Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC) and ...

CPU launched in 1972 was manufactured using this process.

References

External links

Brief timeline of microprocessor development
*10000 1971 introductions {{nano-tech-stub