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Ten nanometre CMOS logic technology

Through some unconventional approaches to improving transistor density and performance, the latest logic technology from Intel delivers 100 million transistors per square millimetre — and in the process, reaffirms Moore’s law.

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Fig. 1: Intel’s 10 nm CMOS logic technology compared with its 14 nm technology.

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Datta, S. Ten nanometre CMOS logic technology. Nat Electron 1, 500–501 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0137-6

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