More data exposure of SMIC's N + 1 process! Will target low-power applications

At SMIC's 2019 fourth quarter financial report meeting on February 14, Dr. Liang Mengsong revealed detailed data on SMIC's next-generation "N + 1" process.

In the fourth quarter of 2019, SMIC's 14nm contributed revenue for the first time. Dr. Zhao Haijun said that revenue from 14nm will continue to rise steadily this year, and 14nm production capacity will also increase as the production capacity of SMIC's 12-inch plant climbs. 14nm applications include high-end consumer electronics, high-performance computing, media applications, artificial intelligence, and automotive electronics.

Dr. Liang Mengsong revealed that SMIC's next-generation N + 1 process has improved performance by 20% compared to 14nm, reduced power consumption by 57%, reduced logic area by 63%, and reduced SoC area by 55%. So in terms of power and stability, the N + 1 and 7nm processes are very similar. The only difference is in performance. The N + 1 process has a small improvement, and the market benchmark performance improvement should be 35%. Therefore, SMIC's N + 1 process is oriented towards low-power applications.