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Lei had teased the 3 nanometer chip last week on Chinese social media app Weibo.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 22 May 2025
While microplastics range from 5 millimeters (the size of a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, nanoplastics are smaller than one millionth of a meter (one micrometer).
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
Many viruses measure just tens of nanometers (nm) in size, but that’s not always the case.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
The lower nanometer count just means the transistors have become smaller, allowing more of them to be placed on the chip.
—Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 22 May 2025
While microplastics range from 5 millimeters (the size of a pencil eraser) to 1 nanometer, nanoplastics are smaller than one millionth of a meter (one micrometer).
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
Many viruses measure just tens of nanometers (nm) in size, but that’s not always the case.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
The lower nanometer count just means the transistors have become smaller, allowing more of them to be placed on the chip.
—Ben Sin, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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