Japan Semiconductor Innovation 50     (D-8 1980s)

NEC succeeded in applying NMOS technology to 4K-bit DRAM, µPD403, in 1971, while conventional DRAMs were in PMOS, and played a leading role in realizing higher performance DRAM. Japanese semiconductor companies realized higher quality and manufacturing yield and established the leading position in the DRAM market from 16K DRAM generation, and further increased their share of market in 64K generation in the early 80's and thereafter.
Japanese manufacturers led the global industry in the advanced technologies of DRAM, as well as their productization, including high reliability and low cost plastic packages, high performance CMOS, multi-level interconnect, folded-bit line architecture to cope with lower signal levels, three-dimensional memory cells such as stacked cells and trench cells. They led the progress of semiconductor manufacturing technologies, as well as leading in world semiconductor share.

Toshiba 1M DRAM	Cross Section of Stacked Cell	Cross Section of Trench Cell
Offered by Toshiba	Photo reference 1	Photo reference 2

Remarks

Photo reference 1
Technical Digest of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, pp.348-351, 1978.

Photo reference 2
Technical Digest of IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, pp.806-808, 1982.