Talk:90 nanometer

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== Highlights == (Still editing,gathering notes)

-September 9, 2004 - Samsung Electronics 90nm 512Mb DDR SDRAM on 300mm base wafers.

2003 -Samsung

--Jondel 03:01, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think the info. on leakage deserves it's own page. Leakage is a topic in itself, and deserves a full explanation.the1physicist 05:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Earlier versions

From a vandalism:(What about larger sizes for the earlier CPUs?)

[edit] What has this size

When saying a microchip is made in the x nanometer process, what actually is x nanometers? One transistor? --Abdull 17:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

In industry parlance, the process-node size is a statement of the transistor's "drawn length" (or was it gate-length?) Many parameters go into a manufacturing process, and channel-length is just 1 of them. The semiconductor industry as a whole loosely follows the ITRS roadmap. Suffice it to say "90nm" is another Meaningless Measure of Marketing, like shoe-size, because the actual drawn transistor-sizes vary from foundry to foundry, depending on target application (digital CMOS, mixed-signal, analog R/F, sensor, high-voltage, etc.) Chimborazo (volcano)

  • sigh*.. No, the measure is of the smallest feature size. An entire gate is rarely the "smallest feature". It amazes me that there is an entire article about a certain IC feature size that doesn't even explain what the significance of the measure is. -- uberpenguin @ 2006-05-19 23:29Z

[edit] Article renaming

For consistency, this article should be moved to 90 nanometre. RedWolf 16:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Consistency with what? That isn't likely a relevant factor in Wikipedia:Naming conventions in any case.
However, it shouldn't be just an adjective. A better name would probably be 90 nm process (are there any other nouns used in conjunction with this? Even if so, they should probably only be redirects), avoiding the nanometer/nanometre issue entirely. Gene Nygaard (talk) 17:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update?

This article seems to be way out of date, as 65 nm has been used by Intel now for some time. Could someone knowledgeable update the article? Fawcett5 15:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I would, but I find it ridiculous to have an entire series of articles about minimum feature width in silicon CMOS processes, so I don't consider it worth the time and effort. All of these articles should be adequately covered in a few sentences in Semiconductor device fabrication. -- uberpenguin @ 2006-08-16 16:07Z

I agree. This article shouldn't require that much attention anymore.218.168.143.177 11:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)