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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by melq on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:17AM (#25277056)
If this Forbes article is correct, a nanometer of silicon is about 2 atoms wide. Can't get much smaller than that!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2011/12/14/how-big-is-...

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Re:TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B tr... by trynumber9 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:32AM (#25277200)
If you look at the actual measurements of their 3nm process they are not near 3nm. The smallest dimension is nearer to 10x that.
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