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Chip Making Technologies

Bipolar

A chip technology where transistors are implemented as NPN or PNP junction type transistors.

MOS

See MOSFET

MOSFET

Metal Oxide on Silicon Field Effect Transistor. A chip technology where the transistors are implemented as Field Effect Transistors.

Silicon Gate

A MOS or CMOS technology where FET gates are implemented with silicon

Metal Gate

A MOS technology where FET gates are implemented with silicon

PMOS

P-Channel MOS

NMOS

N-channel MOS

HMOS

N-Channel, Depletion Load, Silicon Gate MOS

CMOS

Complementary MOS

COS/MOS

Same as CMOS, early RCA term for CMOS technology

CMOS/SOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor / Silicon on Sapphire – A radiation hardened chip technology developed by the department of defense and first put into production by RCA.

CHMOS

Intel’s high speed CMOS process