TSMC's 20-nm Node

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(1) Ken Liu, Altera Said to Place Contract With TSMC for 20nm Process Service. Taiwan Economic News, Sept 14, 2012.
http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_41424.html

Note: Actually Altera said so (it did not specify TSMC, but Intel, the only semiconductor company that reaches 20 nm, is not a foundry).
Press release: Altera Unveils Innovations at 20 nm. Altera (based in San Jose), Sept 5, 2012.
http://www.altera.com/corporate/ ... 0nminnovations.html

(2) Andrew Wang, Asus of Taiwan Expects Q3 Revenues to Surge 20%. Taiwan Economic News, Sept 14, 2012
http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_41417.html
(20% quarter on quarter (QoQ) growth in the third quarter)

Quote:

"Asus forecasts to ship over two million tablet PCs in the third quarter, surging 150% from the second quarter, with laptop shipments up 5.5% QoQ to 5.8 million units

"sales of Nexus 7 and Asus’s [own] Transformer series totaled an estimated one million units in August, a new monthly high * * * [For Nexus 7] the supply was not able to meet the demand in the August

(3) Eva Dou, Savvy or Stubborn? Acer Still Believes in the Netbook. China Real Time, Sept 13, 2012
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... ves-in-the-netbook/
("The most recent pronouncement of the product’s death comes from its inventor, Asustek: 'It is not something that will happen next year — it will already have happened this fourth quarter,' Asustek CEO Jerry Shen told a recent meeting of investors in reference to the company’s decision to stop making netbooks. 'The netbook can be said to have completed its life’s mission from 2007 to 2012'”)