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To: StanX Long who wrote (62425)	3/28/2002 12:56:56 AM
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Infineon executive urges chip makers to adopt more standards By Mark LaPedus Semiconductor Business News (03/27/02 11:51 a.m. EST) siliconstrategies.com SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- During a speech here, the top U.S. executive for Munich-based Infineon Technologies AG pulled no punches and urged memory device makers to adopt standards in order to change an ongoing pattern of confusion and "island solutions" in the PC and semiconductor markets. He said standards in the chip industry will not slow innovation and product development. Instead, chip standards will help accelerate new and emerging technologies in the commercial market, argued Jan du Preez, president of Infineon Technologies Inc., which is the San Jose-based unit of the German semiconductor maker. "We think standards will help enable technologies into the market much faster," Preez said, during his keynote at the JEDEX conference here on Tuesday. JEDEX was sponsored by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. (JEDEC was once known as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council.) The standards process is also important in the area of intellectual-property protection, Preez said. "I think standards can also protect [IP]," he said. He indicated that the move to embrace standards is obvious, but he also noted the industry is rife with too many "island solutions," that is, technologies that don't seem to adhere to a common standard.