Industry’s First 55nm CMOS Process

NEC Electronics America, Inc. has announced the industry’s first 55-nanometer (nm) standard CMOS process technology, UX7LS. It will be used to produce next-generation systems on chips (SoCs) with ultra-low power consumption. UX7LS successfully reduces power consumption in standby mode to approximately one-tenth of conventional 65nm devices, and also boosts the transistor’s on-current by 20 to 30 per cent. These ratings were achieved through NEC Electronics’ new low-power CMOS transistor technology which uses a hafnium-silicate film as a high-dielectric-constant (high-k) insulator film. Shipping of engineering samples based on the UX7LS technology is expected to begin in the summer of 2007, and mass production is expected in the same year. More information about NEC Electronics’ advanced process technology can be found at Necel. Via Bios Magazine.

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