Huawei Just Broke the Rules of Moore's Law!

Moore's Law isn't dead — but it's running out of room. For decades, we made chips faster by making transistors smaller. Now we're hitting the physical limit of how small you can go. So Huawei asked a different question: what if instead of shrinking, you fold? At ISSCC 2026, Huawei unveiled τ-Scaling — a formal framework for continuing to scale performance when geometry alone won't cut it anymore. The idea: every level of the computing stack has slack you haven't used yet. Wire too long? Fold the circuit. Chip-to-chip communication too slow? Bond them face-to-face. Thousands of chips acting like strangers? Make them behave like one brain. They call it the Four Foldings — and it might be the most complete answer anyone has given to the post-Moore question. Want to know more? https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/5... #Huawei #IEEE #Engineering #Semiconductors #MooresLaw #Technology #ChipDesign #FutureTech Chapters 0:00 Moore's Law Is Breaking 1:19 The Atomic Wall & EUV Light 2:28 The Reframe: Time, Not Size (τ = R×C) 3:04 Logic Folding Explained 3:45 The 100× Leap & Kirin Payoff 4:51 How They're Built: Wafers, TSVs & Bonding 5:35 Scaling to AI: UnifiedBus & Light 6:17 Stacking vs Folding 6:48 The Software Behind It: EDA 7:21 The Four Foldings 7:50 The Hard Parts: TSVs & Heat 10:28 Innovation From Constraint 11:43 Folding Paper to the Moon 12:05 Why This Matters: AI for Good 》》》SUPPORT THE SHOW!《《《 Become a MEMBER! https://twobit.link/Member Our Podcast! https://twobit.link/Podcast Join our Newsletter! https://twobit.link/Newsletter Join our Discord! https://twobit.link/Discord Buying a Tesla? https://twobit.link/Tesla 》》》OUR PARTNERS《《《 Protect Yourself Online: https://twobit.link/DeleteMe 》》》GOING SOLAR?《《《 Energy Sage for Solar ⟫ https://twobit.link/EnergySage 》》》COMPANY OUTREACH 《《《 Sponsor A Video! [email protected] 》》》CONNECT WITH US 《《《 Twitter 》   / twobitdavinci   Facebook 》   / twobitdavinci   Instagram 》  / twobitdavinci   00:00 Huawei just rewrote the rules 00:37 Why Moore's Law is hitting a wall 02:28 The wire delay nobody talks about 03:05 Logic folding: how it actually works 03:48 How they build it: copper bonding at atomic scale 04:21 The geometric leap: 12,000 → 1,000,000 connections 05:35 Scaling it to AI data centers 06:18 Folding vs. stacking — they're not the same thing 07:19 The Four Foldings framework 07:48 Heat, TSVs, and the hard engineering problems 09:25 Can you keep folding? More layers, new era 10:30 Innovation from constraint 12:08 Why energy efficiency is the real prize