IBM Unwraps Chip-Making Technology.(Brief Article)

CircuiTree, February, 2001

East Fishkill, NY--IBM launched production of powerful new microchips for servers, communications gear and pervasive computing products, using the most advanced chip-making technology ever developed. The new technology, named CMOS 9S, unites IBM innovations in copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors and improved, "low-k dielectric" insulation to build chip circuits as small as 0.13 microns, or nearly 800 times thinner than a human hair.

A variety of chips are already in pilot production using IBM's new manufacturing technique, with first customer shipments planned for early 2001.

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