The Era of Wetware

In 2026, Moore's Law comes to an end and the world falls into a computing power shortage. AI is trapped by energy consumption and physical limits, and its development is difficult. Chen Xu, a neuroscientific researcher who was once regarded as a genius, ended up hiding in the market and became an ordinary geek because he was unwilling to compromise the rules of the circle. Just when everyone was still fighting over the bottleneck of the 3-nanometer chip, he took a different approach and cultivated a new "wetware" based on human neurons in the laboratory. That is not a traditional silicon-based chip, but a living computing unit that can grow and think. From optimizing the underlying algorithm for mobile phone heat dissipation to building a biological computer that can change the world, Chen Xu has single-handedly blazed a new trail amid the computing power barriers built by giants. The silicon-based era is fading into twilight, and the future of carbon-based intelligence is being opened by him.