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Nanometer
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Nanometer
A measure of length equal to one one-billionth of a meter. In other words, a nanometer is .000000001 meters. Nanometers are important in the semiconductor industry.


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lt;p>The new chips will be built on production lines that can make chips with transistor gates as small as 32 nanometers in size.
the world's biggest computer chip-maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a manufacturing process that shrinks the circuitry in a chip to just 32 nanometers (nm).
The chips offer a circuitry of 65 nanometers wide, which is around 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, compared to its current chips which offer 90 nanometer circuitry.
 
 
 
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