[Boatanchors] Is 4657 same animal as the 8072?

[David Hollander]

Hello Rod - Motorola Semiconductor became two semiconductor companies. 
In 1999 they combined Discretes, Logic and most of Analog and it became 
ON Semiconductor. I was part of ON for two years and than like 
everywhere else they laid off most of the Motorola employees. The rest 
of Semiconductor's became Freescale about 4 years later. That included 
everything from Austin, TX  (Microprocessors, memory, etc) and the 
remaining analog stuff here in Phoenix.

Motorola was the largest employer in the state of Arizona with over 
30,000 employees at one time. I believe that their might be a few 
hundred Motorola employees left here now 10 years later.

Forgot to mention that they also sold off the Motorola Government 
Electronics Division in around 1999 which was here in Scottsdale. That 
was sold to General Dynamics and those former Motorola employees have 
done very well. Can't say the same for the people who worked in 
Semiconductors.

This all began when Junior took over in 1997 and decided he did not want 
Moto in the semi or government electronics business and he apparently 
did not like Arizona either.

After 10 years, Motorola is now a distant memory. I worked for them for 
27 years.

73,

Dave N7RK
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