How many nanometres is the most advanced chip manufacturing process?
Technology hard Data from 2024
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The answer
3 nanometres
The leading process is 3 nanometres. For scale, a human hair is about 80,000 nm wide and a single silicon atom is 0.2 nm. The machines that print these patterns cost around $380 million each and only one company makes them.
Where this number comes from
| Source | TSMC technology roadmap |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | nanometres |
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