Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

(company)

(FhG, FhG IIS, Institut f?r Integrierte Schaltungen) A german company, named after the physicist. IIS is Integrated Circuit Institute.

FhG are known for their research on audio compression, especially MPEG-1 Layer-3 (MP3).

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Philippe Busquin, European Commissioner for Research, had a meeting on April 10 in Brussels, with officials from the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, a research institute based in Munich, (1).