motorola

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motorola - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Motorola, Inc.
  Motorola
  
     <company> One of the world's leading providers of wireless
     communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems
     and services.  Major equipment businesses include cellular
     telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications,
     personal communications, automotive, defense and space
     electronics, computers, satellite communications systems,
     police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab
     dispatching (radio) systems.  Communication devices, computers
     and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola
     semiconductors.
  
     They are probably best known in the computing world for their
     microprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000
      CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, the
     Motorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and the
     PowerPC on which they collaborated.  They also led the
     development of VMEbus.
  
     Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994).
  
     See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL.
  
     (http://mot.com/).
  
     Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.
  
     (1994-12-01)