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How many nanometers are in the latest EUV lithography technology?

2 nm

Background

The newest EUV lithography creates structures just 2 nanometers small. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter. For comparison, a human hair is 80,000 nanometers thick. The machines come from ASML in the Netherlands and cost around 350 million euros each. Without them, modern smartphone chips would not exist.

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