I haven’t been following the nanometer rat race, but SMIC just announced it achieved 14-nm. This means they are only 7 years behind Intel, according to your st

I haven’t been following the nanometer rat race, but SMIC just announced it achieved 14-nm. This means they are only 7 years behind Intel, according to your statement. Now, TSMC is at 7 nm, and while the smaller nanometers are important for energy efficiency, and especially for mobile devices with a battery, it doesn’t really increase the clock cycle. Actually, nobody seems to talk about gigahertz clock cycles anymore. It’s all about multiple cores now. Then, doesn’t this mean that SMIC is now competitive against Intel on desktop computers and laptop computer CPUs? And to be honest, I don’t even know the specs of the chip in my laptop. I don’t think I even purchased the fastest chip anyways.