Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Ahn Heung-sik) November 12, 2013 – Xilinx announced that it has shipped the semiconductor industry's first 20nm products and the PLD industry's first 20nm all-programmable devices to customers for the first time, manufactured through TSMC. Xilinx's UltraScale™ devices fully leverage the advantages of the ASIC class through the industry's only ASIC-class programmable architecture combined with the Vivado® ASIC-strength design suite and the recently announced UltraFast™ design technique. UltraScale devices enable customers to achieve 1.5 to 2 times higher system-level performance and integration, which puts them a generation ahead of competitors.

Victor Peng, Vice President and General Manager of Products at Xilinx, stated, “By being the first in the industry to introduce high-performance FPGAs to customers, Xilinx has once again reaffirmed its industry-leading leadership,” adding, “The launch of UltraScale devices, built upon the strong momentum of the 7 Series, signifies the arrival of a new generation.”

Dr. YJ Mii, TSMC’s R&D Vice President, said, “The semiconductor industry has entered a new phase with the launch of UltraScale devices based on TSMC’s 20nm process technology. We are very pleased that Xilinx is introducing 20nm silicon to customers through ceaseless pioneering.”

Xilinx's UltraScale devices enable smarter next-generation systems by meeting new high-performance architecture requirements for high-performance computing applications for data centers, as well as applications such as 400G OTN, packet processing and traffic management, 4X4 Mixed Mode LTE, WCDMA radio, 4K2K and 8K display ISR (Intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance).