Talk:Nanometre

message: hello
nanometers are cool  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.27.46 (talk) 20:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good - that's what Wikipedia is all about. 86.27.92.162 10:11, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: On Picometre there's a diagam of a helium atom which gives an idea of perspective. Any suggestions for a similar type of diagram in this article? 86.27.92.162 10:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram 

message: I do not like all the English spellings taking predominance over the US spellings.  Far more scientists, semiconductor manufacturers and users of small measurements are in the US. Any objections to changing these pages to predominant US spellings, redirecting from the British spellings? --68.73.203.92 01:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.
~~Lazyguythewerewolf . Rawr. 20:09, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  British vs. US spellings 

message: A friend of mine sent me an email last summer about nanotechnology -etc. 
He included this explanation:
If the distance between New York and Los Angeles was a 'meter' then at this scale:
* A human cell is about the size of a basketball court
* Nanotechnology deals with objects smaller then a basketball
* A nanometer is the size of an ant  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calixte (talk • contribs) 16:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems a bit farfetched. That would mean the 65nm chips currently in, say, the XBox 360, are smaller than a human cell (Although there are a bunch of different types of human cells). Correct me if I'm wrong, though. Zellthemedic (talk) 01:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The distance between Los Angeles and New York is 2,462 miles [1]. One billionth of this is very close to 4 millimeters (3.96220493 millimeters). Calixte's friend seems to be right, although I suppose it depends on what kind of ant. James Lednik (talk) 00:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

text:  [1] Source: http://www.laalmanac.com/transport/tr53.htm
But what does it mean to say you have a "65 nm" chip?  It means not that the entire chip is just 65 nm, but that the smallest components on that chip--perhaps the spacing between wires, or the transistors--are 65 nm.  The whole chip altogether may be, I don't know, 1 cm^2.  At least that's how I understand it, but I could easily be mistaken. --Singularitarian (talk) 06:39, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

text: What I had confused was the actual CPU. The actual CPU itself is 65nm, not the die (What the CPU is mounted on). Zellthemedic (talk) 08:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently "65nm" chip means that the gate line widths (whatever those are) or transistors in the chip are 65nm.  I don't believe there is any current method of producing electronics capable of such complex computations as current microprocessors at nanometer scales.  See http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_45nm_technology_node_mean and especially http://www.edn.com/article/CA6493083.html 70.181.77.182 (talk) 02:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  picturing a nanometer 

message: I just don't understand to be honest. 24.240.67.71 (talk) 04:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The "United States of AMERICA" has been officially metric since 1866. However, the "Customary" ENGLISH (pre-Imperial) measuring system is used in general non-scientific AMERICAN life. If you don't understand it, it doesn't make any difference to your life as you don't need to use or understand it.--TGC55 (talk) 11:33, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  We Have Feet/Inches/etc. in america... but going lower than inches makes us metric? 

message: I've always pronounced it 'Nano Meters', but can you pronounce it na-NOM-eter like you can with kilometer?
OsamaBinLogin (talk) 04:37, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronouciation 

message: The nanoword 2406:2D40:90D0:2F10:B086:5271:65FD:DEFB (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The nano world