Indeed. You just drop down to smaller units. The Intel 8088 chip was made on a 3 micrometer process node and a decade later they had to measure in nanometers

Indeed. You just drop down to smaller units. The Intel 8088 chip was made on a 3 micrometer process node and a decade later they had to measure in nanometers for the 486 which launched on an 800 nm process node.