[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20686-20687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10029]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--SEMATECH, Inc. d/b/a International SEMATECH

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 19, 2001, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), SEMATECH, Inc. (which is 
doing business as International SEMATECH) has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership and project 
status. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the 
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, CONEXANT 
Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA; Hyundai Electronics Industries 
Company, Ltd., Kyoungki-do, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Infineon Technologies, 
Munich, GERMANY; Philips Semiconductors International BV, Eindhoven, 
THE NETHERLANDS; STMicroelectronics, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; and Taiwan 
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. Hsin-Chu, TAIWAN have been 
added as parties to this venture. Also, Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Hudson, MA; National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; and 
Rockwell International, Newport Beach, CA have been dropped as parties 
to this venture. The current list of parties to the venture is as 
follows: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; CONEXANT Systems, 
Inc., Newport Beach, CA; Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA; 
Hyundai Electronics industries Company, Ltd., Kyoungki-do, REPUBLIC OF 
KOREA; Infineon Technologies, Munich, GERMANY; International Business 
Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY; Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; 
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ; Motorola, Inc., Shaumburg, 
IL; Philips Semiconductors International BV, Eindhoven, THE 
NETHERLANDS; STMicroelectronics, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Taiwan 
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsin-Chu, TAIWAN; and Texas 
Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX.
    The scope of the venture has expanded by conducting programs that 
were previously performed by its subsidiary, specifically programs in

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lithography, environmental safety and health, standards, and equipment 
productivity improvement team projects and manufacturing methods. Also, 
the nature and objectives of the venture are to perform and sponsor 
research and development of standards, facilities, software, processes, 
materials and equipment for advanced semiconductor manufacturing for 
the benefit of its members and for the industry as a whole. This work 
is done in conjunction with its members; suppliers of equipment, 
materials, services and software to the industry; universities; 
research laboratories and institutes; and government agencies and 
laboratories. International SEMATECH also sponsors workshops and 
conferences among industry, academia and government on technical and 
business challenges facing the semiconductor industry and facilitates 
the preparation and publication of the International Technology Roadmap 
for Semiconductors. International SEMATECH further conducts and 
sponsors efforts to make business processes in the industry more 
efficient, including creating models of the cost of owning and 
operating semiconductor equipment and facilities and analysis of larger 
economic trends in the industry. International SEMATECH provides 
various services, including wafer processing services, to companies in 
the industry, including equipment and materials suppliers, to help them 
research and develop advanced facilities, equipment and materials more 
quickly and efficiently.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and International SEMATECH intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On April 22, 1988, SEMATECH, Inc. filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of 
the Act on May 19, 1988 (53 FR 17987).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 9, 
1998. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-10029 Filed 4-23-01; 8:45 am]
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