2016-13634. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on May 9, 2016, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (“Si2”) 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, MIE Fujitsu Semiconductor, Limited, Yokohama City, JAPAN; IC Manage, Inc., Campbell, CA; SA Magillem Design Services, Paris, FRANCE; Minalogic, Grenoble, FRANCE; Ricoh Electronic Devices Company, Limited, Osaka, JAPAN; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Guilford, CT; and Broadcom, Ltd., San Jose, CA, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN; ARM, Cambridge, MA; Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Berkley, CA; Blackcomb Design Automation, Inc. Vancouver, CANADA; IMEC, Heverlee, BELGIUM, Qorvo, Richardson, TX, Sage Design Automation, Santa Clara, CA; SiConTech, Inc., Austin, TX; STARC, Tokohama, JAPAN; Tyndall National Institute, Cork City, IRELAND; United Microelectronics Corporation, Hsinchu City, TAIWAN; Altera, San Jose, CA; Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA; and Avago Technologies, Ltd., San Jose, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.

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 Si2 intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On December 30, 1988, Si2 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 March 13, 1989 (54 FR 10456).

The last notification was filed with the Department on September 28, 2015. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on November 16, 2015 (80 FR 70837).

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.