[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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