The 90 nanometer (90 nm) lithography process is a full node semiconductor manufacturing process following the 110 nm process stopgap. Commercial integrated circuit manufacturing using 90 nm process began in 2003. This technology was superseded by the 80 nm process (HN) / 65 nm process (FN) in 2006.

Industry

Introduced in late 2002, Intel's 90 nm process became the first volume production to introduce strained silicon transistors.

Fab
Process Name​
1st Production​
Type​
Wafer​
Metal Layers​
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Contacted Gate Pitch​
Interconnect Pitch (M1P)​
SRAM bit cell​
DRAM bit cell

Intel		TSMC		Samsung		Fujitsu		IBM / Toshiba / Sony / AMD / Chartered		Motorola		TI
P1262						CS-100 / CS-101				HiPerMOS 8
2002		2003		2003		2004		2003		2004		2005
Bulk								PDSOI				Bulk
300mm
7						10						9
Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ	Value	130 nm Δ
260 nm	0.82x	240 nm	0.77x	245 nm	0.70x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x
220 nm	0.63x	240 nm	0.71x	245 nm	0.70x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x	? nm	?x
1.0 µm²	0.50x	0.999 µm²	0.47x	0.999 µm²	?x	1.07 µm²	0.54x	0.999 µm²	?x	? µm²	?x	? µm²	?x
				0.275 µm²				0.19 µm²	?x

90 nm Microprocessors

• AMD
  • Athlon 64
  • Athlon 64 X2
  • FX
  • Opteron
  • Turion 64
  • Turion 64 X2
• Cavium
  • OCTEON Plus
• HAL (Fujitsu)
  • SPARC64 V
• IBM
  • PowerPC 970
• Loongson
  • Godson 2
• Qualcomm
  • MSM6xxx
• Sun
  • UltraSPARC T1
• Intel
  • Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
  • Pentium M
  • Pentium D
  • EP80579

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90 nm Microarchitectures

• AMD
  • K8
• ARM
  • ARM7
• Intel
  • Pentium M

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Documents

• Samsung foundry - 45 nm, 65 nm, 90 nm guide (August, 2007)