As yet, 0.18 "deep submicron" technology is immature, and cannot yet go into mass production. But there are already people forecasting that a factory capable of producing a one gigabit chip at a process dimension of 0.1 micron will be up and running by the year 2000.
在目前 0.18「深次微米」的技術尚未成熟、還不能進入大量生產階段之際，已有人預言，到了西元二千年，將會有以 0.1 微米為最小線距，製造十億位元（1G）記憶體的工廠出現。