By comparison, today's (January 1996) state-of-the art technologies have feature sizes of about 0.25 microns. And today (November 2015), chips manufactured on

By comparison, today's (January 1996) state-of-the art technologies have feature sizes of about 0.25 microns. And today (November 2015), chips manufactured on 14 nanometer (0.014 micron) processes are shipping in volume.