[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32697]


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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 November 18, 2011, 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. d/b/a 
International Sematech (``Sematech, Inc.'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, Aixtron SE, 
Herzogenrath, GERMANY; Applied Seals North America, Inc., Newark, CA; 
Tokyo OHKA Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JAPAN; Core Wafer Systems, 
Inc., Albuquerque, NM; Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, 
JAPAN; Soitec, Bernin, FRANCE; Macronix International Co., Ltd., 
Hsinchu, TAIWAN; Global Foundaries Inc., Milpitas, CA; Freescale 
Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX; Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, 
GERMANY; Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA; LSI Corporation, 
Milpitas, CA; Spansion Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Advanced Micro Devices, 
Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA; 
NXP Semiconductors N.V., Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS; ON Semiconductor 
Corporation, Phoenix, AZ; and STMicroelectronics N.V., Geneva, 
SWITZERLAND, have been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, Canon Anelva Corporation, Kanagawa, JAPAN; Lasertec 
Corporation, Yokohama, JAPAN; Nanosys Inc., Palo Alto, CA; and Rudolph 
Technologies Inc., Flanders, NJ, have withdrawn as parties to this 
venture.
    International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative, Inc. (``ISMI'') 
has an additional membership category called council membership. ISMI 
offers and manages a number of councils which are forums for 
semiconductor industry managers to benchmark operations, share best 
practices, hear expert presentations, hold workshops on topics of 
interests, influence/supply chain, and network. These ISMI councils 
focus on wafer fab operations, procurement and logistics, quality and 
reliability, and final manufacturing.
    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 Sematech, Inc. intends to file 
additional written notifications 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 November 15, 
2011. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on August 4, 2011 (76 FR 70758).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2011-32697 Filed 12-20-11; 8:45 am]
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