hdpwipmonkey

.13 micron is a manufacturing term that refers to the feature size of the poly-silicon gate in the microprocessor. This feature size has a direct correlation to the speed and power requirements of microprocessor. As feature sizes are reduced, the process speed (GHz) increases while the power requirements decrease correspondingly.

How big is a micron you ask,
To put it into terms you can understand, if you were to take a human hair and peel it 1000 times then one of those peels would be a micron.

.13 micron explaination courtesy of INTEL Corp.

UberN00B

You could say its 1/1000 of a Millimeter... that would make it alot more sence. thus, this faq was semi pointless. lol.

Waffles

looks nice to me. i think the hair explanation is better than the #'s so you can really understand how small it is universally.... not all of us work in mm :)

Cyberstrike2027

feet + inches scale? rofl!

when Intel bringing out .0002um? lol When he hit EHz lol (real measurement)

somody

just to let you all know the abbreviation is spelt μm and not um. μ is the Greek letter Mu and so makes an english equivalent of mm, although mm is already used for millimeter and so micrometer (μm) is used.

ShawnMcGrail

Now that one Deserves a rep, lol!

J3r3my

Arent they going from um to nm (nanometers) now?

somody

it goes:
m-metres-1
dm-decimetres-0.1
cm-centimetre-0.01
mm-millimetre-0.001
μm-micrometre-0.000001
nm-nanometre-0.000000001
pm-picometre-0.000000000001
fm-femtometre-0.000000000000001
am-attometre-0.000000000000000001
zm-zeptometre-0.000000000000000000001
ym-yoctometre-0.000000000000000000000001

hope that helps!

fstfrddy

Wow I thought nanometers was the smallest measure in use! I am constantly reminded that I should have paid much more attention in math class instead of girl watching.

J3r3my

dang theres so many i havent ever heard of before