nanometer

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Named for the nanometer -- one billionth of a meter -- nanomachinery would operate on the molecular level.

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  • A nanometer, abbreviated nm, equals one billionth, 10-9, of a meter. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • And a nanometer is a meter, divided into a billion parts. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
  • The 45-nanometer, quad-core Xeon 5500 series offers enhancements to improve performance and efficiency, such as an integrated memory controller, triple the memory bandwidth of previous Xeon chips, a chip-to-chip interconnect, greater virtualization capabilities, and the ability to dynamically adjust to workloads and conditions. —  eWeek - RSS Feeds
  • The 45-nanometer, quad-core Xeon 5500 series of chips offers chip-to-chip interconnect, boosted virtualization capabilities, and —  eWeek - RSS Feeds
  • The chip is manufactured using a 55-nanometer (nm) process, compared to the 65-nm process employed for other recent Nvidia chips. —  Latest from Computerworld
 

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