Current Intel production chips have feature sizes of 14nm, that is about 65 silicon atoms wide and they are hoping to release parts with 10nm early next year. S

Current Intel production chips have feature sizes of 14nm, that is about 65 silicon atoms wide and they are hoping to release parts with 10nm early next year. Shrinking much below this size and you would think they would start to see reliability problems even if the chip was produced perfectly. Articles announcing the end of Moore's law have been written since the early 2000's, but this time it really is different.