List of semiconductor scale examples


The following is a list of semiconductor scale examples for various MOSFET semiconductor manufacturing process nodes.

Timeline of MOSFET demonstrations

PMOS and NMOS

CMOS (single-gate)

Multi-gate MOSFET (MuGFET)

Other types of MOSFET

Commercial products using micro-scale MOSFETs

Products featuring 20 μm manufacturing process

Chips using 90 nm manufacturing technology

  • Sony/Toshiba Emotion Engine+Graphics Synthesizer - 2003
  • IBM PowerPC G5 970FX - 2004
  • Elpida Memory's - 2005
  • IBM PowerPC G5 970MP - 2005
  • IBM PowerPC G5 970GX - 2005
  • IBM "Waternoose" Xbox 360 Processor - 2005
  • IBM/Sony/ Toshiba Cell Processor - 2005
  • Intel Pentium 4 Prescott - 2004-02
  • Intel Celeron D Prescott-256 - 2004-05
  • Intel Pentium M Dothan - 2004-05
  • Intel Celeron M Dothan-1024 - 2004-08
  • Intel Xeon Nocona, Irwindale, Cranford, Potomac, Paxville - 2004-06
  • Intel Pentium D Smithfield - 2005-05
  • AMD Athlon 64 Winchester, Venice, San Diego, Orleans - 2004-10
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 Manchester, Toledo, Windsor - 2005-05
  • AMD Sempron Palermo and Manila - 2004-08
  • AMD Turion 64 Lancaster and Richmond - 2005-03
  • AMD Turion 64 X2 Taylor and Trinidad - 2006-05
  • AMD Opteron Venus, Troy, and Athens - 2005-08
  • AMD Dual-core Opteron Denmark, Italy, Egypt, Santa Ana, and Santa Rosa
  • VIA C7 - 2005-05
  • Loongson STLS2E02 - 2007-04
  • Loongson 2F STLS2F02 - 2008-07
  • MCST-4R - 2010-12
  • Elbrus-2C+ - 2011-11

    Processors using 65 nm manufacturing technology

  • Sony/Toshiba EE+GS - 2005
  • Intel Pentium 4 – 2006-01-16
  • Intel Pentium D 900-series – 2006-01-16
  • Intel Celeron D – 2006-05-28
  • Intel Core – 2006-01-05
  • Intel Core 2 – 2006-07-27
  • Intel Xeon – 2006-03-14
  • AMD Athlon 64 series – 2007-02-20
  • AMD Turion 64 X2 series - 2007-05-07
  • AMD Phenom series
  • IBM's Cell Processor – PlayStation 3 – 2007-11-17
  • IBM's z10
  • Microsoft Xbox 360 "Falcon" CPU – 2007–09
  • Microsoft Xbox 360 "Opus" CPU – 2008
  • Microsoft Xbox 360 "Jasper" CPU – 2008–10
  • Microsoft Xbox 360 "Jasper" GPU – 2008–10
  • Sun UltraSPARC T2 – 2007–10
  • AMD Turion Ultra – 2008-06
  • TI OMAP 3 Family – 2008-02
  • VIA Nano – 2008-05
  • Loongson – 2009
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT GPU - 2007

    Processors using 45 nm technology

  • Matsushita released the 45 nm Uniphier in 2007.
  • Wolfdale, Yorkfield, Yorkfield XE and Penryn are current Intel cores sold under the Core 2 brand.
  • Intel Core i7 series processors, i5 750
  • Pentium Dual-Core Wolfdale-3M are current Intel mainstream dual core sold under the Pentium brand.
  • Diamondville, Pineview are current Intel cores with Hyper-Threading sold under the Intel Atom brand.
  • AMD Deneb and Shanghai Quad-Core Processors, Regor dual core processors , Caspian mobile dual core processors.
  • AMD "Thuban" Six-Core Processor
  • Xenon in the Xbox 360 S model.
  • Sony/Toshiba Cell Broadband Engine in PlayStation 3 Slim model – September 2009.
  • Samsung S5PC110, as known as Hummingbird.
  • Texas Instruments OMAP 36xx.
  • IBM POWER7 and z196
  • Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx series
  • Espresso Wii U CPU

    Chips using 32 nm technology

  • Toshiba produced commercial 32Gb NAND flash memory chips with the 32nm process in 2009.
  • Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, released in January 2010
  • Intel 6-core processor, codenamed Gulftown
  • Intel i7-970, was released in late July 2010, priced at approximately US$900
  • AMD FX Series processors, codenamed Zambezi and based on AMD's Bulldozer architecture, were released in October 2011. The technology used a 32 nm SOI process, two CPU cores per module, and up to four modules, ranging from a quad-core design costing approximately US$130 to a $280 eight-core design.
  • Ambarella Inc. announced the availability of the A7L system-on-a-chip circuit for digital still cameras, providing 1080p60 high-definition video capabilities in September 2011

    Chips using 2624 nm technology

  • Hynix Semiconductor announced that it could produce a 26 nm flash chip with 64 Gb capacity; Intel Corp. and Micron Technology had by then already developed the technology themselves. Announced in 2010.
  • Toshiba announced that it was shipping 24 nm flash memory NAND devices on August 31, 2010.

    Chips using 22 nm technology

  • Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i5 processors based on Intel's Ivy Bridge 22 nm technology for series 7 chip-sets went on sale worldwide on April 23, 2012.

    Chips using 20 nm technology

  • Samsung Electronics began mass production of 64Gb NAND flash memory chips using a 20 nm process in 2010.

    Chips using 16 nm technology

  • TSMC first began 16nm FinFET chip production in 2013.

    Chips using 14 nm technology

  • Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i5 processors based on Intel's Broadwell 14 nm technology was launched in January 2015.
  • AMD Ryzen processors based on AMD's Zen or Zen+ architectures and which uses 14 nm FinFET technology.

    Chips using 10 nm technology

  • Samsung announced that it had begun mass production of multi-level cell flash memory chips using a 10nm process in 2013. On 17 October 2016, Samsung Electronics announced mass production of SoC chips at 10 nm.
  • TSMC began commercial production of 10 nm chips in early 2016, before moving onto mass production in early 2017.
  • Samsung started shipping Galaxy S8 smartphone in April 2017 using the company's 10 nm processor.
  • Apple delivered second-generation iPad Pro tablets powered with TSMC-produced Apple A10X chips using the 10 nm FinFET process in June 2017.

    Chips using 7 nm technology

  • TSMC began risk production of 256 Mbit SRAM memory chips using a 7 nm process in April 2017.
  • Samsung and TSMC began mass production of 7 nm devices in 2018.
  • Apple A12 and Huawei Kirin 980 mobile processors, both released in 2018, use 7 nm chips manufactured by TSMC.

    Chips using 5 nm technology

  • Samsung began production of 5 nm chips in late 2018.
  • TSMC began production of 5 nm chips in April 2019.

    3 nm technology

  • TSMC and Samsung Electronics have announced plans to release 3nm devices during 20212022.