What the Latest Chip Architecture Means for Local AI Inference

Introduction, The Post-FinFET Era For nearly a decade, the semiconductor industry lived inside the shadow of FinFET scaling. From 16nm through 3nm, FinFET transistors carried Moore’s Law forward with incremental geometry improvements, tighter pitches, and aggressive power optimizations. Yet at Ninth Post, we have been tracking the limits of this architecture for years, and by…