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Motorola Semiconductor

Company Pedigree

 Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies
Company Comments Company Comments
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation The company changed its name to Motorola in 1947 to emphasis its car radio brand MOS Technology In August of 1974, eight engineering and marketing employees left to join MOS Technology (Bill Mensch, Chuck Peddle)
Motorola Semiconductor Formed as a subsidiary of Motorola  in 1951 Western Digital Corporation Founded by former Motorola employee, Alvin Phillips
General Instrument GI spun-off its broadband products division as a company called Next Level Systems in July of 1997. In early 1998, Next Level changed its name back to General Instruments. In 2000, Motorola acquired GI. Freescale Semiconductor In 2004, Motorola spun off its semiconductor business as Freescale Semiconductor

Company Overview

Motorola Semiconductor was created to produce semiconductor products. Motorola Semiconductor was formed as a merchant semiconductor business. In addition to creating products for its own use,  it also sold components to other customers.

Major Achievements

 

Chip Identification

 

Motorola Chips

 Microprocessors
CPU’s 6800, 6809, 68000, 680008, 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040, 10800 
MCU’s 6801, 6802, 6803
Bit-Slice 88000
  Memory Devices
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CCD Memory  
Bubble Memory  
  General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers  
Interfaces  
Communications  

Second Sourced Chips

  Microprocessors
CPU’s Intel 8080 (MC8080), AMD 2901 (MC2901)
MCU’s  
Bit-Slice  
  Memory Devices
RAM  
ROM  
PROM  
EPROM  
EEPROM  
CCD Memory  
Bubble Memory  
  General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers  
Interfaces  
Communications