[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6678]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 5, 1998, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Minnesota Mining and 
Manufacturing Company (``3M'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
3M, St. Paul, MN; Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN; RSoft, Inc., 
Ossining, NY; Precitech, Inc., Keene, NH; Coors Ceramics Company, 
Golden, CO; and CFR Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL. The nature 
and objectives of the venture are to establish the infrastructure to 
enable low cost manufacturing of wide parallel data links. This 
infrastructure encompasses ceramic-based connectors, heterogeneous 
integration of optoelectronic devices with Si CMOS electronics, built 
in ``smart link'' functionality which will ensure link performance 
while loosening manufacturing tolerances, and a modeling and simulation 
infrastructure which will allow rapid adaptation to new link 
configurations. The goal of use of such an approach to produce low cost 
cabling and standardized receiver/transmitter interconnections is to 
result in an industry standard system for massively parallel optical 
interconnects for circuit boards, compatible with existing chip attach 
techniques (e.g., wave soldering, etc.). Targets for a system include 
36 multimode fiber wide links operating at a data rate of between 1-2 
Gbps/fiber with costs comparable to copper.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-6678 Filed 3-18-99; 8:45 am]
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