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• Trade secrets: industry tax-exempt organizations collectively take in more than $100 million a year. Where does it go?

  - 2008-03-01

  Question: Which is the largest industry association? Answer: It depends on your definition of "largest." If the number of members is measured, for instance, the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society is tops by a wide margin. If annual revenues are considered, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International laps the field....

  Tags: American Electronics Association, FINANCE, HARDWARE, JEDEC, revenue, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, Semiconductor Industry Association, Semiconductors, Taxes

• 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

• Rambus: FTC Jumped the gun; patents for SDRAM filed well before standards group action - News

  - 2002-06-24

  Rambus Inc.'s chief legal counsel contends that the Federal Trade Commission's FTC antitrust investigation into the company can't be resolved until some outstanding patent claims are decided. Attorney John Danforth said Rambus patented the technology that made SDRAM possible and that it has rights to that technology regardless of...

  Tags: Components, FTC, HARDWARE, JEDEC, Memory, patent, Rambus Inc., Semiconductors