10 nanometres

Semiconductor manufacturing processes
10 µm — 1971 3 µm — 1975 1.5 µm — 1982 1 µm — 1985 800 nm (.80 µm) — 1989 600 nm (.60 µm) — 1994 350 nm (.35 µm) — 1995 250 nm (.25 µm) — 1998 180 nm (.18 µm) — 1999 130 nm (.13 µm) — 2000 90 nm — 2002 65 nm — 2006 45 nm — 2008 32 nm — 2010 22 nm — 2011 16 nm — approx. 2013 11 nm — approx. 2015 6 nm — approx. 2020 4 nm — approx. 2022
Half-nodes

Comparison of sizes of semiconductor manufacturing process nodes with some microscopic objects and visible light wavelengths. At this scale, the width of a human hair is about 10 times that of the image.

To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10⁻⁸ and 10⁻⁷ metres (10 nanometres and 100 nanometres).

Distances shorter than 10 nanometres

• 10 nm = 10 nanometres = 10⁻⁸ metres
• 10 nm — lower size of tobacco smoke
• 10 nm Shortest Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength or longest X-ray wavelength
• 11 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell speculated to be manufactured in 2015.
• 16 nm — technology is projected to be reached by semiconductor companies in the 2013 timeframe
• 18 nm — diameter of tobacco mosaic virus (Generally, viruses range in size from 20 nm to 450 nm.)^{[citation needed]}
• 20 nm — width of bacterial flagellum
• 20 nm to 80 nm — thickness of cell wall in Gram-positive bacteria
• 22 nm — Smallest feature size of production microprocessors in September 2009
• 22 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell expected to be manufactured at around the 2011–2011 time frame.
• 30 nm — lower size of cooking oil smoke
• 32 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2009–2010 time frame.
• 45 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2007–2008 time frame.
• 50 nm — upper size for airborne virus particles
• 50 nm — flying height of the head of a hard disk
• 65 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2005–2006 time frame.
• 90 nm — the average half-pitch of a memory cell manufactured at around the 2002–2003 time frame.
• 100 nm — larger than 90% of the particles of wood smoke^{[citation needed]} (ranges from 7 to 3000 nanometres)

Distances longer than 100 nanometres