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Since its announcement a year ago, 40nm half-node process faced serious challenges, and tooling companies are expressing their doubt at the "40nm" part, since some customers such as FPGA-maker Altera [ALTR] were told that they're working with TSMC on a 45nm node, and then end up surprised to hear that TSMC is considering them as "a leading 40nm customer".