The transition from NMOS to CMOS came as a surprise to many. Most people thought CMOS too slow and insufficiently dense to become the industry’s mainstream process technology. In the mid-70s, Yasui Tokumasa of Hitachi took the view that NMOS was like a bridegroom and CMOS like a bride. He characterised NMOS as prompt at …
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