The 5nm in “5nm scale” no longer means “things are literally 5nm in size”. Rather, it’s become a fancy way of saying something like “200x the linear transistor density of an old 1-micron scale chip”. The gates are still larger than 5nm, it’s just that things are now getting put on their side to make more room ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFET ). Some chip measures sure are slowing down, but Moore’s law (referring to the number of transistors per chip and nothing else) still isn’t one of them despite claims of impending doom due to “quantum effects” originally dating back to (IIRC) the eighties.
The 5nm in “5nm scale” no longer means “things are literally 5nm in size”. Rather, it’s become a fancy way of saying something like “200x the linear transistor density of an old 1-micron scale chip”. The gates are still larger than 5nm, it’s just that things are now getting put on their side to make more room ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinFET ). Some chip measures sure are slowing down, but Moore’s law (referring to the number of transistors per chip and nothing else) still isn’t one of them despite claims of impending doom due to “quantum effects” originally dating back to (IIRC) the eighties.