The 22 nanometer (22 nm) lithography process is a full node semiconductor manufacturing process following the 28 nm process stopgap. The term "22 nm" is simply a commercial name for a generation of a certain size and its technology, as opposed to gate length or half pitch. Commercial integrated circuit manufacturing using 22 nm process began in 2008 for memory and 2012 for MPUs. This technology was replaced by with 20 nm process (HN) in 2014 and 16 nm process (FN) in late 2015.

Industry

The 22 nm became Intel's first generation of Tri-gate FinFET transistors and the first such transistor on the market. This process became 3rd generation high-k + metal gate transistors for Intel. In 2017 Intel announce the introduction of a new process "22FFL" specifically for low power IOT and mobile products for their custom foundry.

Process Name
1st Production
Lithography	Lithography
	Immersion
	Exposure
Wafer	Type
	Size
Transistor	Type
	Voltage
Fin	Pitch
	Width
	Height
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		Intel		IBM
P1270 (CPU) / P1271 (SoC)		22FFL (P1222)		22HP
2011		2017		2013
193 nm		193 nm		193
Yes		Yes		Yes
SADP		SADP
Bulk		Bulk		SOI
300 mm		300 mm		300 mm
FinFET		FinFET		Planar
0.75 V		0.7 V		0.75 V
Value	32 nm Δ	Value	32 nm Δ	Value	32 nm Δ
60 nm	N/A	45 nm	N/A	N/A
8 nm
34 nm
26 nm		30 nm		25-33 nm	0.83-1.1x
90 nm	0.80x	108 nm		100 nm	0.79x
80 nm	0.71x	90 nm		80 nm	0.80x
0.130 µm²	0.65x			0.144 µm²
0.092 µm²	0.62x	0.088 µm²		0.128 µm²	0.86x
0.108 µm²	0.63x
0.029 µm²				0.026 µm²	0.67x

Intel

Intel 22nm SoC Interconnect Design Rules
Layer	Pitch	Process	Dielectric Materials	CPU	SoC	Image
Fin	60 nm	-	-	Fin	Fin
Contact	90 nm	SAC	-	Contact	Contact
M1	90 nm	SAV	ULK CDO	M1	M1
MT - 1x	80 nm	SAV	ULK CDO	M2/M3	2-6 layers
MT - 1.4x	112 nm	SAV	ULK CDO	M4	Semi-global
MT - 2x	160 nm	SAV	ULK CDO	M5	Semi-global
MT - 3x	240 nm	SAV	ULK CDO	M6	Global Routing
MT - 4x	320 nm 360 nm	Via First	LK CDO	M7/M8	Global Routing
MT - TOP	14 µm	Plate Up	Polymer	M9	Top Metal

Intel 22nm SoC Transistor Characteristics
Transistor Type	High Speed Logic		Low Power Logic		High Voltage Logic
Options	High Performance (HP)	Standard Perf/Power (SP)	Low Power (LP)	Ultra-Low Power (ULP)	1.8 V	3.3 V
Vdd (V)	0.7 V / 1 V	0.75 V / 1 V	0.75 V / 1 V	0.75 V / 1.2 V	1.5 V / 1.8 V / 3.3 V	3.3 V / >5V
Gate Pitch (nm)	90	90	90	108	min. 180	min 450
Lgate (nm)	30	34	34	40	min. 80	in 280
N/PMOS Idsat/Ioff (mA/µm)	1.08/0.91 @ 0.75 V, 100 nA/µm	0.71/0.59 @0.75 V, 1 nA/µm	0.41/0.37 @ 0.75 V, 30 pA/µm	0.35/0.33 @ 0.75 V, 15 pA/µm	0.92/0.8 @ 1.8 V, 10 pA/µm	1/0.8 @ 3.3 V, 10 pA/µm

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22 nm Microprocessors

• Intel
  • Core i3
  • Core i5
  • Core i7
  • Core i7EE
  • Xeon
  • Xeon E3
  • Xeon E5
  • Xeon E7

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22 nm Microarchitectures

• Intel
  • Haswell
  • Ivy Bridge
  • Silvermont
• IBM
  • POWER8
  • z13

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Documents

• Intel's 22FFL technology

References

• IEDM 2012
• IEDM 2014
• ISSCC 2015