[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 116 (Tuesday, June 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 35913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15182]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 27, 2003, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Semiconductor Test Consortium, 
Inc. 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 Advantest Corporation, Tokyo, 
JAPAN; Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ; and Motorola, Inc., Austin, TX. 
The nature and objectives of the venture are to administer the 
development, support and promotion of the specifications of Open 
Semiconductor Test Architecture (``OPENSTAR''), a testing standard 
which defines a flexible testing platform for complex logic devices for 
use in the semiconductor and automated test equipment industries. The 
mission of Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. is to support the 
development and long-term success of OPENSTAR, including the delivery 
of technical and economic performance sustainability, open 
architecture, and multi-vendor interoperability at both the hardware 
and software levels. Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. shall achieve 
this mission by developing and promoting its open architecture 
specifications as industry-wide standards, issuing design guidelines 
relating to its specifications, presenting activities that promote the 
use of the specifications, and providing for the licensing or 
publication of the specifications on reasonable and non-discriminatory 
terms to both members and non-members alike.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-15182 Filed 6-16-03; 8:45 am]
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