The 32 nanometer (32 nm) lithography process is a full node semiconductor manufacturing process following the 40 nm process stopgap. Commercial integrated circuit manufacturing using 32 nm process began in 2010. This technology was superseded by the 28 nm process (HN) / 22 nm process (FN) in 2012.

Industry

TSMC cancelled its planned 32nm node process. Intel's 32 nm process became the first process to introduce the self-aligned via patterning.

Process Name
1st Production
Lithography	Lithography
	Immersion
	Exposure
Wafer	Type
	Size
Transistor	Type
	Voltage
Metal Layers
Gate Length (Lg)
Contacted Gate Pitch (CPP)
Minimum Metal Pitch (MMP)
SRAM bitcell	High-Perf (HP)
	High-Density (HD)
	Low-Voltage (LV)
DRAM bitcell	eDRAM

Intel		TSMC		Common Platform Alliance The Common Platform Alliance 20 nm node was a collaboration between IBM, Samsung, Freescale, Toshiba, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Infineon Technologies		Toshiba / NEC		Common Platform Alliance (SOI) IBM, Freescale, AMD
P1268 (CPU) / P1269 (SoC)
2009				2011
193 nm		193 nm		193 nm		193 nm		193 nm
Yes		Yes		Yes		Yes		Yes
DP		DP		DP		DP		DP
Bulk		Bulk		Bulk		Bulk		SOI
300 mm		300 nm		300 nm		300 nm		300 nm
Planar		Planar		Planar		Planar		Planar
1 V, 0.75 V		1.1 V		1 V, 0.8 V		1 V		1 V
9				11				11
Value	45 nm Δ	Value	40 nm Δ	Value	45 nm Δ	Value	40 nm Δ	Value	45 nm Δ
30 nm		30 nm		30 nm						25 nm
112.5 nm	0.63x	130 nm		126 nm		120 nm		130 nm
112.5 nm	0.70x	100 nm		100 nm		100 nm		100 nm
0.199 µm²
0.148 µm²		0.15 µm²		0.157 µm²		0.124 µm²		0.149 µm²
0.171 µm²
								0.039 µm²

Design Rules

Intel 32nm Design Rules
Layer	Pitch	Thick	Aspect Ratio	Image
Isolation	140 nm	200	-
Contacted Gate	112.5 nm	35 nm	--
Metal 1	112.5 nm	95 nm	1.7
Metal 2	112.5 nm	95 nm	1.7
Metal 3	112.5 nm	95 nm	1.7
Metal 4	168.8 nm	151 nm	1.8
Metal 5	225.0 nm	204 nm	1.8
Metal 6	337.6 nm	303 nm	1.8
Metal 7	450.1 nm	388 nm	1.7
Metal 8	566.5 nm	504 nm	1.8
Metal 9	19.4 µm	8 µm	1.5
Bump	145.9 µm	25.5 µm	-

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32 nm Microprocessors

• AMD
  • A8
  • A10
• Intel
  • Celeron
  • Core i3
  • Core i5
  • Core i7
  • Core i7EE
  • Xeon
  • Xeon E3
  • Xeon E5
  • Xeon E7
• UC Davis
  • KiloCore
• Princeton
  • Piton

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32 nm Microarchitectures

• AMD
  • Bulldozer
  • Piledriver
• IBM
  • z12
• Intel
  • Saltwell
  • Sandy Bridge
  • Westmere

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Documents

• Samsung foundry solution for 32 & 28 nm

References

• Greene, B., et al. "High performance 32nm SOI CMOS with high-k/metal gate and 0.149 µm 2 SRAM and ultra low-k back end with eleven levels of copper." VLSI Technology, 2009 Symposium on. IEEE, 2009.
• Jan, C-H., et al. "A 32nm SoC platform technology with 2 nd generation high-k/metal gate transistors optimized for ultra low power, high performance, and high density product applications." Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2009 IEEE International. IEEE, 2009.
• Wu, Shien-Yang, et al. "A 32nm CMOS low power SoC platform technology for foundry applications with functional high density SRAM." Electron Devices Meeting, 2007. IEDM 2007. IEEE International. IEEE, 2007.
• Chen, X., et al. "A cost effective 32nm high-K/metal gate CMOS technology for low power applications with single-metal/gate-first process." VLSI Technology, 2008 Symposium on. IEEE, 2008.
• Diaz, C. H., et al. "32nm gate-first high-k/metal-gate technology for high performance low power applications." Electron Devices Meeting, 2008. IEDM 2008. IEEE International. IEEE, 2008.
• Natarajan, S., et al. "A 32nm logic technology featuring 2 nd-generation high-k+ metal-gate transistors, enhanced channel strain and 0.171 μm 2 SRAM cell size in a 291Mb array." Electron Devices Meeting, 2008. IEDM 2008. IEEE International. IEEE, 2008.
• Hasegawa, S., et al. "A cost-conscious 32nm CMOS platform technology with advanced single exposure lithography and gate-first metal gate/high-k process." Electron Devices Meeting, 2008. IEDM 2008. IEEE International. IEEE, 2008.
• Arnaud, F., et al. "32nm general purpose bulk CMOS technology for high performance applications at low voltage." Electron Devices Meeting, 2008. IEDM 2008. IEEE International. IEEE, 2008.
• Pilo, Harold, et al. "A 64 Mb SRAM in 32 nm high-k metal-gate SOI technology with 0.7 V operation enabled by stability, write-ability and read-ability enhancements." IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 47.1 (2012): 97-106.