Four companies remain candidates for the job, including Fraunhofer IPK of Berlin, part of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft research institute, which helped develop the MP3 music format.
Advanced Micro, the world's second-largest maker of personal computer processors, and Infineon, Europe's No.2 chip maker, are working with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft research institute.
kraftwerk, which translates to "power station" in German, is the product of eZelleron, an engineering team that spun out of German research firm Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
Representatives of several HGF centers expect that the new funding system will influence management of their institutions: "Program-orientated funding will require a strategic analysis of research topics," says Thomas Gazlig of the Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF) in Braunschweig.
The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society) conducts basic research in life sciences in the interest of the general public.
"They have to educate people, they have to invest" in training, said Hans-Jörg Bullinger, the president of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the big German contract research company.
"As long as the wages are so low, it will be difficult to increase consumption," said Hans-Jorg Bullinger, the president of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a big German contract research company.
This research was supported by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Advanced Micro's chief executive, Hector Ruiz, attended yesterday's event along with Hans-Jörg Bullinger, president of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, an umbrella organization for scientific research institutes in Germany.
Hassium was officially discovered in 1984 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt.
