SMIC's N+1 process is 7nm-ish. They've had this for a while. It lowers power usage as one would expect when going from their 14nm process to 7nm, but performanc

SMIC's N+1 process is 7nm-ish. They've had this for a while. It lowers power usage as one would expect when going from their 14nm process to 7nm, but performance did not improve as much, hence why some call it comparable to 10nm.