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• EIA board OK's split

  - 2007-09-01

  WASHINGTON -- The Electronic Industries Alliance's (eia.org) board of directors has approved a plan that would split the assets of the trade group coalition across five distinct organizations. Under the plan, EIA will distribute its assets equally among its four current member associations--The Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association...

  Tags: asset, board, electronics, JEDEC, Quality, reserve, standards, Telecommunications Industry Association, TIA

• Letter to the editor.(Talk Back)

  - 2004-01-01

  Readers continue to weigh in on the issue of SEMI's standards process (see "It's Time for Online, On-Time Standards," October 2003, p. 17; and "Letters to the Editor: SEMI Standards Redux," December 2003, p. 26). Our latest response comes from a staff director at JEDEC, a...

  Tags: Government, HARDWARE, JEDEC, Quality, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, Semiconductors

• Who set those standards? In the wake of outsourcing, alliances become increasingly important

  - 2002-07-22

  Companies are banding together to lead standardization and R&D efforts now that OEMs and IC houses are outsourcing more and more of their manufacturing, assembly and development, picking up the slack for an industry that no longer is dominated by any single company. While contract manufacturers, front-end and backend...

  Tags: alliance, Amkor Technology Inc., HARDWARE, IBM Corp., JEDEC, outsourcing, Quality, R&D, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, Semiconductors, standards, Strategy

• Federal Trade Commission examines standards-setting procedures.

  - 2001-11-01

  Government agency looking into how high-tech companies handle IP Who polices standards bodies? Nobody, really, but the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating several high-tech companies' behavior in standards bodies in an effort to determine whether they need...

  Tags: FTC, JEDEC, patent, Quality, standards, Sun Microsystems Inc.