Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: So, can you really fab 10**6 transistors now?
Message-ID: <1989Mar13.165931.22528@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7392@polya.Stanford.EDU> <62230001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 16:59:31 GMT

In article <62230001@hpl-opus.HP.COM> poulton@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Ken Poulton) writes:
>... 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...

I seem to recall a non-HP assessment somewhere which said something like:
"The difficulty of getting good results from this self-aligning process
is demonstrated by the fact that it hasn't been used for anything else
since."
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