9 Apparatus for the recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images, namely computer interface boards, integrated circuits and cameras, magnetic data carriers pre-recorded with hardware description language code for the specification and manufacturing of integrated circuits, data processors and computers, video telephones, automatic telephone switchboards, telephone receivers, central processing units, computer memories, semiconductors, integrated circuits, printed circuits, television set-top-boxes, home satellite receivers, microprocessor cores, namely softcores for developing and manufacturing integrated circuits, computer firmware for the control of integrated circuits and interface boards, operating system software, software for image processing for multimedia, all for use in the field of designing and fabricating integrated circuit components, assemblies and software, exclusive of data acquisition, analysis and scientific research