Status of CMS silicon strip tracker

The CMS silicon tracker is going to be the largest silicon detector made so far, with about 210 square meters of sensitive area. The CMS tracker collaboration, after the completion of the R&D phase, has put a lot of effort in finalizing the design of the silicon sensors, electronics hybrid, APV chip and many other crucial components in order to make such a detector possible. Many laboratory tests and test beam studies have been done. The project is now moving toward mass production. In this paper an overview of the CMS silicon tracker is made describing many of the progresses made on basics components of the silicon tracker