[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70758-70759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29079]


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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 August 4, 2011, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301

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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 its nature and objectives. 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, Taiwan 
Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan; United 
Microelectronics Corporation, Inc., Hsin Chu City, Taiwan; Samsung 
Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin-City, Gyeonggi-Do, Republic of Korea; 
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University of 
Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; Fuller Road 
Management Corporation, Inc. of the University of Albany, State 
University of New York, Albany, NY; Tokyo Electron Limited, Minato-ku, 
Tokyo, JAPAN; Canon Anelva Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan; Asahi Glass 
Corporation, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, Japan; FEI Company, Hillsboro, OR; SUSS 
MicroTec AG, Thiendorf, Germany; ASML Holding N.V., Veldhoven, The 
Netherlands; KLA-Tencor Corporation, Milpitas, CA; Qualcomm 
Incorporated, San Diego, CA; Nanosys Inc., Palo Alto, CA; 4DS Inc., 
Fremont, CA; Intel, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Hynix 
Semiconductor Inc., Geonggi-Do, Republic of Korea; Tokyo Electron 
Limited, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Rudolph Technologies Inc., Flanders, 
NJ; ON Semiconductor, Phoenix, AZ; NEXX Systems Inc., San Francisco, 
CA; Atotech Deutchland GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Altera Corporation, San 
Jose, CA; Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA; Analog Devices Inc., 
Norwood, MA; LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA; Lasertec Corporation, 
Yokohama, Japan; ASE Group, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Fujifilm Electronic 
Materials, Shizuoka, Japan; Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd., Tokyo, 
Japan; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; JSR 
Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; AZ Electronic Materials, Somerville, NJ; 
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., LTD, Niigata, Japan; Rohm and Hass Company, 
Marlborough, MA; Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX; Micron 
Technology, Inc., Boise, ID; National Semiconductor, Inc., Santa Clara, 
CA; Renesas Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Toshiba Corporation, 
Yokohama, Japan; Panasonic Semiconductor Discrete Devices Co., Ltd., 
Kyoto, Japan; Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Edwards Limited, 
Tewksbury, MA; Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX; Matheson Tr-Gas Inc., 
Basking Ridge, NJ, have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX; Freescale Semiconductor, 
Inc., Austin, TX; Infineon Technologies AG, Dresden, Germany; Qimonda 
AG, Dresden, Germany; and Advanced Technology Development Facility, 
Inc., Austin, TX, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.
    Additionally, International SEMATECH has begun to recruit and admit 
program members that only join certain discrete projects and thus only 
have access to information and intellectual property created under the 
discrete projects that these lower-tiered members join. Hence, 
International SEMATECH has four new classes of membership in addition 
to its traditional core membership: (1) Program--includes integrated 
circuit manufacturers, semiconductor design companies, and assembly and 
packaging companies that choose to pay for and receive information and 
other intellectual property developed in any of Sematech's technical 
divisions; (2) Associate--includes companies that design, test, make, 
market, or support materials, equipment, processes, software, systems, 
or facilities for manufacturing semiconductors and that pay for and 
receive access to information and other intellectual property that 
arise under discrete Sematech-led projects; (3) Extreme Ultraviolet 
Lithography Mask Infrastructure (``EMI'')--includes among its members 
integrated circuit manufacturers and semiconductor mask makers; and (4) 
3D Enablement Center--created to finance and conduct research related 
to three dimensional (3D) interconnect technologies, which the chip 
manufacturing and design industries perceive to be a means available to 
extend Moore's law without the enormous expense associated with 
development of new lithographic technologies.
    International SEMATECH created a new subsidiary called 
International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative, Inc. (``ISMI''), which 
is also a Delaware 501(c)(6) membership corporation organized to 
finance and conduct research and development related to solving 
semiconductor manufacturing problems. ISMI's emphasis is on solving 
today's semiconductor manufacturing challenges such as enhancing 
semiconductor manufacturing equipment productivity, contributing to 
increased automation in the operation of semiconductor fabrication 
facilities (``fabs'') and reducing fabs' electricity and water 
consumption. Sematech created the 450 LLC to finance and conduct 
research and development necessary to catalyze the introduction into 
the marketplace of semiconductor manufacturing equipment capable of 
handling silicon wafers with a diameter of 450mm. The purpose of the 
450 LLC is to aggregate funds from integrated circuit manufacturers to 
finance and participate in this endeavor.
    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 notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On April 22, 1988, International SEMATECH 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 June 16, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on August 4, 2003 (68 FR 45855).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
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