According to US and Japanese estimates, the production value of the worldwide nanotechnology industry will reach something over US $ 70 billion in 2005, but by 2010 it will have exploded to US $ 1 trillion. That represents overall growth of almost 13 times, and the field of communications electronics will grow by 25 times.
根據美國和日本的估計，二○○五年時，全球的奈米產業產值約達到七百多億美元，到了二○一○年，卻暴增到一兆美元，將近十三倍的成長，特別是資訊電子領域的成長更高達二十五倍。