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Motorola Sells Chip Unit for $1.6 Billion

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fabricating-the-evidence dept.

Rude Turnip writes "Motorola is selling its semiconductor components unit to privately-held Texas Pacific Group. Motorola hopes to concentrate on the high-end semiconductor business that provides embedded chips, while keeping some interest in the components business. "

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  1. FYI:Cell phone myth.. by webslacker · · Score: 2

    Actually, a woman won in court against Motorola over that. Her husband died because of a brain tumor, his wife blamed the cell phone and the court found Motorola liable. This was something like 4 years ago. Whether it was a frivolous lawsuit, I dunno. Maybe early cell phones really were dangerous, maybe she just needed to point the finger quickly. Either way, she won.

  2. Probably a good move. by Mr.+Piccolo · · Score: 2

    First of all, ENOUGH WITH THE "DEJA VU" COMMENTS! So far this discussion is content-free.

    Now, I think this is a good idea for Motorola. By selling off their components division they can concentrate more on advancing things like the PowerPC and, of course, all their embedded microprocessors. This, of course, means better Macs, better cell phones, and better whatever-the-heck-else-they-use-embedded-microproc essors-for.

    This may also help boost profits -- after all, how much do they really make on op-amps? It can't be all that much.

    Anyway, I think it makes good business sense, sort of a trimming-the-fat move.

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  3. Motorolas Organization by B.B.Wolf · · Score: 2

    There seems to be alot of misunderstanding about
    Motorolas structur. The organization that produces
    the CPUs and MPUs is not part of SPS, let alone
    SPG.
    SPG is Motorolas jelly bean factory. They make the
    cheap commodity parts. Much of what SPS, the larger
    organization that SPG belongs to, does is custom.
    Look at your hard drive. There is a good chance that
    there is a fairly large LSI flatpack with the
    batwing logo. Commodity parts just clog up the
    fabs. Other companies are better suited to cranking
    out standard TTL and CMOS, etc. As far as anolog
    ICs, most of the good stuff is made by a different
    organization within SPS. SPS is still a huge part
    of Motorola.

    I spent 10 years with the company and enjoyed
    every one.

    Couldn't /. come up with a decent "Batwing"?