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The End of The Age of Silicon

Why Moore’s Law’s Collapse Will Reshape Everything

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Adrian Monck
Nov 13, 2025
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1. The Wall

A silicon atom is 0.2 nanometres wide. At 2nm, the world’s cutting-edge chip structures are just ten atoms across. There are no half-atoms. We’re not talking about an engineering challenge – we’re talking physics.

The move from 7nm to 5nm chips took twenty-…

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