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From: a.guillaume@trl.oz.au (Andrew Guillaume)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: State of the art
Keywords: CMOS BiCMOS state of the art
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Date: 21 Jun 91 08:17:28 GMT
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One normally gets technology reviews at the end of the year, but I have to
provide my management figures and facts NOW. What I'm after are state of the
art figures and facts for CMOS and BiCMOS, and records, like how many
transistors on a non-memory chip, etc. 

What I have at present : in excess of 1 million transistors on a CMOS
processor (1.4 million ?), feature sizes of 0.8microns available with
0.4microns in the offing, CMOS processor speeds commonly around the 30MHz
mark, with expected 50-60MHz speeds, and experimental around 450MHz, double
layer (triple ?) metal interconnects are commonplace.

Any information would be appreciated (largest gate arrays, impact of BiCMOS,
complexity of mixed analog/digital chips, etc.) And yes, I know my local
library might have all that info, but, no, I do not have access to my local
library right NOW :-)

I'd prefer email responses to a.guillaume@trl.oz.au, and if there is
interest I could summarise to the net.

Thanks in advance

Andrew Guillaume

a.guillaume@trl.oz.au