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The Silicon Lattice — Chronology

1987 – Present. Pivotal moments unfold as a narrative arc with branching consequence.

Impact · pivotal
2024

AI compute supercycle

NVIDIA briefly the most valuable company on Earth. Wafer starts become geopolitics.

Branching Consequence
  • Strategic alignment of allied powers shifts.
  • New supply dependencies emerge downstream.
  • Adversaries accelerate sovereign capability programs.
Counterfactual

If this moment had been delayed by a decade, the resulting industrial geography would be unrecognizable today.

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