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Nasser Grayeli, vice president of Intel Corp.'s technology and manufacturing group and director of assembly technology development, has been named chairman of The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI). Srinivas Rao, vice president of technology for Solectron Corp., and Leslie Guth, director of supply chain networks for Lucent Technologies, are NEMI's new codirectors of planning.. . .QWIP Technologies (QWIPTECH), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rainbow Group of Companies Inc., announced that BFi OPTiLAS will distribute its infrared products in 13 European countries.