Products of Digital Integrated Circuit

Among all semiconductor and IC products in the global market, digital IC contributes to about 70%, which includes memory, CPU, logic, ASIC, and IP products. Over the past 50 years or so, various types of memories have been developed, including embedded SRAM, DRAM, their derivatives (DDR, LPDDR, and GDDR), and external flash memories (NAND, NOR). Started from 8086 in 1978, the x86 CPU series from Intel has the longest development history, variety of CPU instruction set architecture (ISA) are co-exiting in the industry today, including POWER series from IBM, MIPS from Imagination, and ARM series from ARM Holdings. Broadly speaking, MPU, MCU, and DSP are also members of CPU family. This chapter reviews the digital IC products of memories, CPUs, ASIC, and FPGA.