Semiconductors Market Co-operation Not Caught By Competition Rules

The European Commission has given its green light for an agreement between European, North American and Japanese companies in the sector of the information technologies, creating and administrating Stack International. This operation aims to promote quality and reliability by establishing a single product specification or supplier certification, which can be used in numerous sales by the certified to any number of buyers. It is also the object of Stack to promote market transparency by establishing indicative benchmarks for prices for particular components.

Background:

Stack is a non-profit company registered in the United Kingdom.

Its activities are defining generic specifications for components such as integrated circuits, memory circuits, memory modules, logic circuits, microprocessor circuits...Stack has been considered as a de facto industry standard throughout the world certifying compliance with that specification by individual products; defining a standard for