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01 ·Scaling & Power·FREE·10 min read What Moore's Law Actually Says — What Ended, and What Is Still Going "Double every two years" was never a law of physics — it was a timetable the industry agreed to keep. Dennard scaling is what ended; cost is what slowed; density and going vertical are what continue. A ground-up tour through log axes, the flat-to-FinFET-to-GAA story, and the arithmetic of cost per transistor. 02 ·Scaling & Power·★ MEMBER·9 min read The Physics of Power — Why Lowering Voltage Pays So Much Derive what one switching event costs, then read the dynamic power equation to see why voltage alone enters squared. From there: Dennard scaling and its end, the 60 mV/decade thermodynamic floor, dark silicon, and the resulting turn toward fixed-function circuits and low precision — ending with the arithmetic of what inference costs to run.