National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 Intel Corporation/Xicor Corporation

BILLING CODE 4410-01-M National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 Intel Corporation/Xicor Corporation Notice is hereby given that pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98-462 (the “Act”), Intel Corporation and Xicor Corporation have filed a written notification simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to a cooperative venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the cooperative venture. The notification was filed for the purpose of invoking the Act’s provision 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 to the cooperative venture and general areas of planned activities are given below.

Intel Corporation, a California Corporation having a business address at 3065 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95051 and Xicor Corporation, a California Corporation having a business address at 851 Buckeye Court, Milpitas, CA, 95035 entered into an agreement on August 2,1985 to engage in cooperative activities in the joint development of EEPROM devices. The principal nature of the cooperative venture is to develop such EEPROM devices for manufacture using a jointly developed process. EEPROM devices are nonvolatile computer memory circuits that may be used to store digital information at specified memory locations. The devices may be updated on a location by location basis and will retain such stored information indefinitely, without the need to maintain a power source on the circuit; Joseph H. Widmar, D irector o f Operations, Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 85-29432 Filed 12-11-85; 8 : 4 5 am]