So, we believe a consortium of electronics companies could pre-emptively bid for all or part of Arm in an effort to guarantee its independence.
In addition to Sony, a consortium of other electronics makers back Blu-ray.
The DVD Forum, a consortium of 230 electronics makers, worked up this format for its members' mutual benefit.
The revamped site will feature E/Town's DealerWeb Retail Federation, offering consumers the opportunity to buy electronics goods directly from a consortium of retailers possibly including such national firms as Circuit City or Best Buy that E/Town is currently aggregating.
And a consortium of consumer-electronics firms, led by Philips of the Netherlands and Japan's Sony, has said it will combine its home video standard with Jini (see article).Microsoft has announced a rival technology called Universal Plug and Play, which is centred around the PC and supported by such big PC makers as Compaq and Dell.
So in 1995 the major electronics and entertainment companies convened as a consortium called the DVD Forum to create a digital video disc standard everyone could live with.
A consortium backed by the troubled electronics giant Motorola, Iridium has covered the world with a constellation of 66 satellites orbiting the earth at a height of 780 kilometres.
In Japan, standardization of HEMS is proceeding due to the Echonet Consortium, a group of Japanese electronics manufacturers.
A consortium of music, technology, and electronics companies called the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) has been searching for the best scheme for protecting audio files.
But the city's backers – a consortium of nine companies, led by electronics giant Panasonic – aren't short on ambition.
CYC, a project begun in 1984 under the auspices of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, a consortium of American computer, semiconductor, and electronics manufacturers, to advance work on artificial intelligence (AI).
