MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS



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125-Million Transistors texas instruments
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DATE: september 1996
TITLE: 125-Million Transistors on a Single Chip


125-Million Transistors on a Single Chip

(Adapted from a Texas Instruments WWW Press Release)

Texas Instruments expects to begin production in 1997 of a single
chip  incorporating  125  million transistors using its new 0.18-
micron process.  The technology will also reduce the  development
cycle  of new products since designers will be able to select mi-
croprocessor or customizable digital signal processor (DSP) cores
and surround them with other needed modules without great concern
about exceeding the chip's  transistor  capacity.  Such  capacity
also  eliminates the need to coordinate the efforts of a DSP ven-
dor, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) vendor,  a
tool  maker  and  a  foundry. The entire system can come from one
source.

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