Samsung Electro-Mechanics Joined Open RF Association, Says DOJ

Components manufacturer Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan, joined the Open RF Association, the consortium told DOJ and the FTC in simultaneous “written notifications” June 10, said a notice in Monday’s Federal Register. Membership in the association, which promotes open interoperability between chipsets and front-end modules to expand 5G adoption and whose members include Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, Qorvo and Samsung Electronics, "remains open," said Suzanne Morris, chief-premerger and division statistics in DOJ’s Antitrust Division. The notifications are required to extend association members antitrust protections under the 1993 National Cooperative Research and Production Act, said Morris.