At the 1970 IEDM, a start-up company presented the world’s first 1kb NMOS RAM. It had a channel length of 5µm a threshold voltage of 1.25V. Access time was 100nsec with cycle time 400nsec. The chip established the superiority of NMOS over PMOS for memories. A customer was lined up, yields were good and the company’s …
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