Sentences with phrase «a nanometer»

Five years ago, the average computer chip was approximately 22 nanometers across.

By filtering seawater through holes that are about 0.5 nanometers wide, the desalination process captures all dissolved material, including salt, while the fresh water passes through.

In one year, representing the «tick,» it would improve its microprocessors by printing the transistors on the chips closer together, reducing the scale of the process, say, from 32 nanometers to 22 nanometers.

Following Moore's Law, coined by one of Intel's founders, Intel Core M Processor contains 1.3 billion 14 nanometer transistors in a dual - core that increases power while reducing cost.

The new chips are manufactured at a scale of 12 nanometers, down from 14 nm for last year's Ryzen line, which should make them more energy efficient and higher performing.

Krzanich gave little information past the name, except to say it would «continue to take advantage of 14 - nanometer» (or the current generation of chips) technology and would ship to clients.

Intel has teased the large - scale release of these 10 - nanometer chips for years, promising they'd deliver better performance with lower power usage than chips built with the company's 14 - nanometer technology, which have been shipping since 2014.

Several outlets reported in January that 10 - nanometer chips had begun shipping last year.

AMD was also able to move manufacturing of the chip at partner GlobalFoundries from a 14 - nanometer scale to a 12 - nanometer scale, allowing for higher clock speeds and better energy consumption.

«We're shipping 10 - nanometer product today.

Samsung is already manufacturing 10 nanometer chips, such as the Snapdragon 835, a popular Qualcomm - designed chip for mobile devices.

He said one of the 10 - nanometer chips was already shipping, but that 10 - nanometer chips would not ship at - volume until 2019.

Its economic development unit, Empire State Development, has established a long - term, multibillion - dollar game plan to attract nanotechnology manufacturers to make not only solar panels but also semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products from very small materials (there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).

Intel's (INTC) gross margin is declining, as the delay in volume production of the 10 - nanometer process node has increased its production cost.

AMD said the new processors, which are optimized for gaming, have the world's first 12 - nanometer process technology and offer up to 15 % better performance than AMD's first - generation models.

GMO Internet Group, a Japanese provider of a full spectrum of internet services for both the consumer and enterprise markets, is launching a new Bitcoin mining business utilizing next - generation 7 nanometer (7 nm) semiconductor chips.

Dealing with engineering at the nanometer scale and below requires probabilities.

Is it when the sperm cell is 1 micro nanometer inside the egg cell, and before the original cell begins to replicate?

However, by «using a texture rather than a dot, the researchers found the hand can detect roughness just 75 nanometers high» — a nanometer being one thousandth of a micron!

I surely don't meet that standard but my encounter with Christ leads me to move closer to it, even if by nanometers as I grow in faith and grace.

Dreisbach lofted a perfect spiral to Hayes, who somehow managed to get his left foot in bounds with no more than a nanometer to spare.

It was the CSR program that earlier this year unveiled a breakthrough computer chip based on 5 nanometer architecture with the smallest transistors ever created.

The etching process leaves behind stacks of titanium carbide, which can be delaminated to make flakes, which are approximately 1 nanometer in thickness.

Quantum dots are semiconductor particles only a few nanometers wide — small enough that they behave like individual atoms.

The viral titan is about 750 nanometers across with a genetic pantry boasting around 1.2 million base pairs of DNA, the information - toting bits often represented with A, T, C and G. Influenza A, for example, is roughly 100 nanometers across with only about 13,500 base pairs of genetic material.

Airborne particles smaller than 50 nanometers across can intensify storms, particularly over relatively pristine regions such as the Amazon rainforest or the oceans, new research suggests.

This high - tech kit allows you to construct tiny objects only 100 nanometers in size!

Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT)(Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so - called «plasmonic oligomers») can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale.

LIGO researchers sensed a wave that stretched space by one part in 1021, making the entire Earth expand and contract by 1/100, 000 of a nanometer, about the width of an atomic nucleus.

Stiff DNA tripod units enabled the assembly of wireframe polyhedra with edges 100 nanometers in length.

It's made of several different films: semiconductor, dielectric, and metal layers, all of which are just a few hundred nanometers thick.

For several decades, nanomaterials — matter that is so small it is measured in nanometers (one nanometer = one - billionth of a meter) and can be manipulated at the atomic scale — have outperformed conventional materials in strength, conductivity and other key attributes.

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.1 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 to 3000 PHz.

The new research focused on small nanoparticles — those with diameters of 5 to 15 nanometers.

When the gravitational waters of spacetime are calm, the beams recombine at the junction and cancel each other out — the troughs of one beam's 1,064 - nanometer waves of laser light completely negate the crests of the second beam's waves.

He worked on osmosis and colloids, which are suspensions of nanometer - sized particles.

These materials are sensitive to light, and cause the nanoparticles to self - assemble through a photo - dimerization process — crosslinking — when subjected to light at a wavelength of 365 nanometers.

Because the beads are only about 100 nanometers across, slightly smaller than a wavelength of visible light, the collection diffracts light, making the gel shimmer with an iridescent glow.

The breakthrough discovery is the synthesis of one - dimensional, carbon nanothreads with diamond - like bonding only 0.6 nanometers in diameter.

While some were touching each other, many were further apart — up to 30 nanometers — a range too far for an electron to jump.

The viral titan is about 750 nanometers across with a genetic pantry boasting around 1.2 million base...

The new technique for functional imaging allows probing of regions on the order of billionths of meters, or nanometers, to characterize a sample's surface hills and valleys, its elasticity (or «bounciness») throughout deeper layers, and its chemical composition.

The preferential interactions of the elements in the alloy occur within a nanometer thin layer at the interface of the solid alloy and the liquid metal.

A laser in the vacuum ultraviolet range — the Dalian facility will cover 50 — 150 nanometers — «has a soft touch,» he says, making it «the best way to detect molecules and atoms in a gas.»

Electron microscopes with nanometer resolution are widely used, but they cost millions of dollars, and preparing a sample for viewing is painstaking.

«If we want to compete with current state - of - the - art technology, we have to go for skyrmionic objects [that] are much smaller in size than 100 nanometers,» Wiesendanger says.

The team's novel fabrication technique involves patterning a solar absorber with tiny holes with diameters less than 400 nanometers (that's roughly 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair), cut into the absorber at regular intervals.

The meteorite is full of grains of an iron oxide mineral called magnetite, each grain a mere 20 to 120 nanometers across.

The microscope's nanometer resolution will allow researchers to track particles floating in colloidal solutions (for example, nanoscale beads floating in a sample of paint) using equipment that is at least a tenth of the cost of an electron microscope.

The technique allows scientists to probe and track biological agents with nanometer - scale resolution.