As we pointed out at the time, Texas Instruments Inc’s claims in May to have perfected a 0.18 micron process were only echoing announcements made by Fujitsu Ltd last year and that IBM Corp and LSI Logic Inc had made similar announcements (CI Nos 2,9 25, 2,922). But Scientific American has cleared up the 0.18 […]
As we pointed out at the time, Texas Instruments Inc’s claims in May to have perfected a 0.18 micron process were only echoing announcements made by Fujitsu Ltd last year and that IBM Corp and LSI Logic Inc had made similar announcements (CI Nos 2,9 25, 2,922). But Scientific American has cleared up the 0.18 micron versus 0.25 micron issue, and the latter figure is the preferable one to use, since it is the width of the transistors, where 0.18 micron is the distance that current has to travel to switch a transistor.
