(1) Carolyn Henson, EU Fines LCD Firms for Price Fixing. Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 2010. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007361215813164.html
(2) Dana Cimilluca, Nobel Fracas Plays Into Silicon Takeover.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007300601751210.html
(Globe Specialty Metals Inc. of US may beat China National BlueStar Corp. in bid to buy Norwegian silicon producer Elkem)
Note: China National BlueStar (Group) Co., Ltd. 中国蓝星集团
www.china-bluestar.com
(3) Brian Caulfield, The Graphics Chip That Roared; Intel wants to be the brains in your mobile phone. Nvidia might get there first. Forbes, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/1220/technology-apple-amd-intel-nvidia-graphics-chip-roared.html
(Nvidia's Tegra chip)
---------------------------Separately
There is no need to read the folloqing, other than the quotes.
(1) Mark LaPedus, Qualcomm lists challenges in IC production. EE Times, Dec. 7, 2010.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4211337/Qualcomm-lists-challenges-in-IC-production
("Qualcomm recently rolled out a new version of its Snapdragon chipset, based on a 28-nm process. The first foundry for the part is TSMC")
My comment: The report mentioned in passing, which is not volume production, it seems (see (2)). The same reporter had talked about the chipset, without EXPLICITLY naming TSMC as its maker.
Mark LaPedus, Qualcomm rolls 28-nm Snapdragon. EE Times, Nov. 17, 2010.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210846/Qualcomm-rolls-28-nm-Snapdrago
("At its analyst meeting in New York on Wednesday (Nov. 17), Qualcomm Inc. has rolled out a new version of its Snapdragon chipset, based on a 28-nm process")
(2) Ken Liu, TSMC Gains One More Customer for 28nm Foundry Service. CENS, Dec. 9, 2010.
http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_34571.html
(TSMC "will start pilot production of its 28nm process in early 2011" and "has landed contracts for the foundry capacity from Xilinx, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Renesas and Texas Instruments in addition to Altera")
(3) Nancy Cheng and Jessie Shen, TSMC to fabricate more Qualcomm chips in 2011. DigiTimes, Dec. 7, 2010.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20101206PD225.html
("Qualcomm reportedly will provide baseband chips for Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 2")