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The i1103 was manufactured on a 6-mask silicon-gate P-MOS process with 8 μm minimum features. The resulting product had a 2,400 μm2 memory cell size, a die size just under 10 mm2, and sold for around $21.
The most significant contributor to reliability has been main-memory error correction. During the first six months of operation, we replaced about 12 failing 1Kx1 MOS RAMs per month (out of a population of 18,432 chips): this has gradually declined to about three failures a month during the last three years. However, because of error correction, a negligible number of these failures has caused crashes.
