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Nature 402, 220 (18 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/46117

Open Innovation Challenges

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Japan calls for partnership to develop semiconductors

Asako Saegusa

A group of leading Japanese electronics companies has proposed a joint industry–government programme to develop next-generation semiconductor technology for the emerging system-on-a-chip (SoC) industry.The proposal includes a plan to establish technical standards to enable intellectual-property components from different sources to be mixed and matched, which is necessary for the building of custom SoCs embedded within complex systems.