List of semiconductor scale examples

Products featuring 10 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 4004 CPU launched in 1971
• Intel 8008 CPU launched in 1972
• MOS Technology 6502 1 MHz CPU launched in 1975 (8 µm)

Products featuring 3 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 8085 CPU launched in 1975
• Intel 8088 CPU launched in 1979
• Motorola 68000 8 MHz CPU launched in 1979 (3.5 µm)

Products featuring 1.5 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 80286 CPU launched in 1982

Products featuring 1.0 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 80386 CPU launched in 1985

Products featuring 0.8 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 486 CPU launched in 1989
• microSPARC I launched in 1992
• First Intel P5 Pentium CPUs at 60 MHz and 66 MHz launched in 1993

Products featuring 0.6 µm manufacturing process

• Intel 80486DX4 CPU launched in 1994
• IBM/Motorola PowerPC 601, the first PowerPC chip, was produced in 0.6 µm.
• Intel Pentium CPUs at 75 MHz, 90 MHz and 100 MHz

Products featuring 350 nm manufacturing process

• Intel Pentium Pro (1995), Pentium (P54CS, 1995), and initial Pentium II CPUs (Klamath, 1997)
• AMD K5 (1996) and original AMD K6 (Model 6, 1997) CPUs.
• NEC VR4300, used in the Nintendo 64 game console
• Parallax Propeller, 8 core microcontroller^[1]

Products featuring 250 nm manufacturing process

• DEC Alpha 21264A, which was made commercially available in 1999
• AMD K6-2 Chomper and Chomper Extended. Chomper was released on May 28, 1998
• AMD K6-III "Sharptooth" used 250 nm
• Mobile Pentium MMX Tillamook, released in August 1997
• Pentium II Deschutes
• Pentium III Katmai
• Dreamcast CPU and GPU
• Initial PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine CPU

Processors using 180 nm manufacturing technology

• Intel Coppermine E- October, 1999
• Intel Celeron (Willamette) - May, 2002
• Motorola PowerPC 7445 and 7455 (Apollo 6) - January, 2002

Processors using 130 nm manufacturing technology

• Motorola PowerPC 7447 and 7457 2002
• IBM Gekko (Nintendo GameCube)
• IBM PowerPC G5 970 - October 2002 - June 2003
• Intel Pentium III Tualatin and Coppermine - 2001-04
• Intel Celeron Tualatin-256 - 2001-10-02
• Intel Pentium M Banias - 2003-03-12
• Intel Pentium 4 Northwood- 2002-01-07
• Intel Celeron Northwood-128 - 2002-09-18
• Intel Xeon Prestonia and Gallatin - 2002-02-25
• VIA C3 - 2001
• AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred, Thorton, and Barton
• AMD Athlon MP Thoroughbred - 2002-08-27
• AMD Athlon XP-M Thoroughbred, Barton, and Dublin
• AMD Duron Applebred - 2003-08-21
• AMD K7 Sempron Thoroughbred-B, Thorton, and Barton - 2004-07-28
• AMD K8 Sempron Paris - 2004-07-28
• AMD Athlon 64 Clawhammer and Newcastle - 2003-09-23
• AMD Opteron Sledgehammer - 2003-06-30
• Elbrus 2000 1891ВМ4Я (1891VM4YA) - 2008-04-27 [1]
• MCST-R500S 1891BM3 - 2008-07-27 [2]
• Vortex 86SX - [3]

Chips using 90 nm manufacturing technology

• Elpida 90 nm DDR2 SDRAM process

• IBM PowerPC G5 970FX - 2004
• 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 (Godson) 2Е STLS2E02 - 2007-04
• Loongson (Godson) 2F STLS2F02 - 2008-07
• MCST-4R - 2010-12
• Elbrus-2C+ - 2011-11

Processors using 65 nm manufacturing technology

• Intel Pentium 4 (Cedar Mill) – 2006-01-16
• Intel Pentium D 900-series – 2006-01-16
• Intel Celeron D (Cedar Mill cores) – 2006-05-28
• Intel Core – 2006-01-05
• Intel Core 2 – 2006-07-27
• Intel Xeon (Sossaman) – 2006-03-14
• AMD Athlon 64 series (starting from Lima) – 2007-02-20
• AMD Turion 64 X2 series (starting from Tyler)- 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^[2]
• TI OMAP 3 Family^[3] – 2008-02
• VIA Nano – 2008-05
• Loongson – 2009
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT GPU - 2007

Processors using 45 nm technology

• Matsushita has released the 45 nm Uniphier.
• Wolfdale, Yorkfield, Yorkfield XE and Penryn are current Intel cores sold under the Core 2 brand.
• Intel Core i7 series processors, i5 750 (Lynnfield and Clarksfield)
• 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 (Phenom II) and Shanghai (Opteron) Quad-Core Processors, Regor (Athlon II) dual core processors [4], Caspian (Turion II) mobile dual core processors.
• AMD(Phenom II) "Thuban" Six-Core Processor (1055T)
• Xenon in the Xbox 360 S model.
• 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
• The yet-to-be-further-specified Wii U IBM POWER7 based CPU

Chips using 32 nm technology

• Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, released in January 2010^[4]
• Intel 6-core processor, codenamed Gulftown^[5]
• Intel i7-970, was released in late July 2010, priced at approximately USD$ 900
• AMD FX Series processors, codenamed Zambezi and based on AMD's Bulldozer architecture, were released in October 2011. The technology utilised a 32 nm SOI process, two CPU cores per module, and up to four modules, ranging from a quad-core design costing approximately USD$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^[6]

Chips using 22 nm technology

• Toshiba announced that it was shipping 24 nm flash memory NAND devices on August 31, 2010.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

References

1. ^ http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?130327-Propeller-I-semiconductor-process-technology-Is-it-350nm-or-180nm
2. ^ TG Daily – AMD preps 65 nm Turion X2 processors
3. ^ http://focus.ti.com/pdfs/wtbu/ti_omap3family.pdf
4. ^ "Intel Debuts 32-NM Westmere Desktop Processors". InformationWeek, 7 January 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
5. ^ Sal Cangeloso (February 4, 2010). "Intel’s 6-core 32nm processors arriving soon". Geek.com. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intels-6-core-32nm-processors-arriving-soon-2010024/. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
6. ^ "Ambarella A7L Enables the Next Generation of Digital Still Cameras with 1080p60 Fluid Motion Video". News release. September 26, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
7. ^ Toshiba launches 24nm process NAND flash memory
8. ^ Article reporting Hynix 26 nm technology announcement
9. ^ Intel launches Ivy Bridge...