800 nanometer
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The 800 nm
process refers to the level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1989–1990 timeframe, by most leading semiconductor companies, like Intel and IBM
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Nanometre
A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter...
process refers to the level of semiconductor process technology that was reached in the 1989–1990 timeframe, by most leading semiconductor companies, like Intel and IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
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Products featuring 0.8 µm manufacturing process
- Intel 486Intel 80486The Intel 80486 microprocessor was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386. Introduced in 1989, it was the first tightly pipelined x86 design as well as the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit...
CPU launched in 1989 was manufactured using this process. - microSPARC IMicroSPARCThe microSPARC is a microprocessor implementing the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture developed by Sun Microsystems. It was a low-end microprocessor intended for low-end workstations and embedded systems. The microprocessor was developed by Sun, but the floating-point unit was licensed from...
launched in 1992 - First Intel P5 Pentium CPUs at 60 MHz and 66 MHz launched in 1993