Motorola, Inc.


Motorola, Inc.

(company)One of the world's leading providers of wirelesscommunications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systemsand services. Major equipment businesses include cellulartelephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications,personal communications, automotive, defense and spaceelectronics, computers, satellite communications systems,police and emergency service radio systems, taxicabdispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computersand millions of consumer products are powered by Motorolasemiconductors.

They are probably best known in the computing world for theirmicroprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000 CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, theMotorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and thePowerPC on which they collaborated. They also led thedevelopment of VMEbus.

Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994).

See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL.

http://mot.com/.

Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.