If that rabbit hole appeals, the ITRS reports (now called IRDS[2]) are very good mid-level, year-by-year summary of the state of the art in chipmaking, including upcoming challenges and future directions.

> Being able to print something in nanometers is an overlooked technical achievement for human manufacturing.

IMO, a semiconductor fab probably is the highest human achievement in terms of process engineering. Not only do you "print" nanometric devices, you do it continuously, in a multi-month pipelined system and sell the results for as little as under a penny (micros, and even the biggest baddest CPUs are "only" a thousand pounds, far less than any other item with literally a billion functional designed features on it).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Technology_Roadm...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Roadmap_for_Devi...

is it the same reports accessed by the process in https://irds.ieee.org/home/how-to-download-irds ?

For IRDS, yes.

This is briefly touched upon in Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", after The Cataclysm happens humanity regrows most technology, but for the most part ICs are limited to 8086-level devices as even thousands of years later they are unable to reach the level of semiconductor technology before it. The amount of technology and power in something as small as a cell phone or lowly raspberry pi is nothing short of a marvel, particularly at their price points.