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 | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| 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 | |