Xilinx Nears 20nm Milestones

 Xilinx announced three milestones in the development of its next generation 20nm All Programmable Devices:

• First Design Tools for 20nm -- the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite will support initial 20nm devices in March 2013.
  
• First 20nm Product Tape Out -- Xilinx expects to tape out its first 20nm product on TSMC's 20SoC manufacturing process during Q2 2013. Device samples are expected this year for strategic customers.
  
• First Ten Early Access Customers -- Xilinx is now engaging with the first ten customers on 20nm architecture evaluations and implementation activities. 

Xilinx said its 20nm All Programmable portfolio is optimized for bandwidth-intensive systems in wired and wireless networks, data centers, vision based systems, and other high performance applications.

http://www.xilinx.com/about/generation-ahead-20nm/index.htm.