The European Commission has decided that integrated circuits will have to be fabricated as well as assembled in Europe in order to classify as European-made under the 1992 Single Market: at present, of the Japanese, only NEC Corp manufactures here – in Scotland, while Fujitsu Ltd assembles in Ireland and Toshiba Corp and Hitachi Ltd assemble in West Germany; of the US majors, Motorola Inc fabricates in Scotland and Intel Corp and Harris Corp have some fabrication via their joint ventures with Matra SA in France; the Japanese are expected to decide that they have no alternative but to build front-ends.
