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From: poulton@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Ken Poulton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: So, can you really fab 10**6 transistors now?
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Date: 10 Mar 89 20:41:55 GMT
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>                                        Failing that, are there any other
> similarly sized chips that have made it out of the lab?

Sure.  In *1982*, HP presented (at ISSCC) a 32bit CPU with 
450K transistors.  It was fabbed in a 1.3um NMOS process.  Yield was
microscopic at the time of the paper, but soon came up to quite
good levels.  It was the CPU for the HP 9000 series 500, which
I think we still sell.


Ken Poulton
poulton@hplabs