[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here we go....I know you with your experience will have something to say about the history of all of this:

Intel promises 10nm in 2015

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From the comments:

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Modest Anonymous

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Monopoly or not, it's the future in making. Astonishing.

The diameter of human hair varies from 17 to 180 micrometers, so you can lay at least 18 million (!!) 7nm transistors onto a section of the tiniest human hair.

18 million for God's sake.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "I know you with your experience will have something to say about the history of all of this:"
Your much to kind. I have for the past twenty years or so simply been an observer to emerging semi conductor technologies. I'm hardly one to depend on evaluating these technologies as they emerge.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not sure if the calculations in comment #12 are correct....might need some help ....

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Swap conversion Nanometer Micrometer

Unit

1 Micrometer is equal to 1000 Nanometer
1 um = 1000 nm

Micrometer to Nanometer conversion chart with sample common values.

Micrometer	Nanometer
1 um	1000 nm
10 um	10000 nm
100 um	100000 nm
2 um	2000 nm
0.1 um	100 nm
1000 um	1000000 nm
0.5 um	500 nm
7.5 um	7500 nm
5 um	5000 nm
0.2 um	200 nm
3 um	3000 nm
0.25 um	250 nm
7 um	7000 nm
6 um	6000 nm
20 um	20000 nm
4 um	4000 nm
50 um	50000 nm
0.01 um	10 nm
25 um	25000 nm

Micrometer

A micrometre is an SI unit of length equal to 1000000 of a metre. It is also commonly known as a micron. It can be written as 1 m / 1,000,000.

Nanometer

A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand-millionth of a metre, which is the current SI base unit of length. It can be written as 1 m / 1,000,000,000.