[Elecraft] OT: Motorola buys Yeasu. Wow!

[Jack Brindle]

Actually there were two separate companies created from what was  
Motorola Semiconductor Group. The first was On Semiconductor, which  
makes all sorts of transistors, logic and analog ICs. Th second was  
Freescale, consisting mostly of the microprocessors and  
microcontrollers, plus a few other things.

On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:35 PM, VR2BrettGraham wrote:

> WA6VNN responded to K7SVV:
>
>>> Did any of you see the ARRL bulletin about Motorola  buying  
>>> Vertex?   It has
>>> been a long time since I have seen a U.S.  company buying a  
>>> foreign company.
>>
>> Maybe  now we'll be able to get the HF Power transistors that they  
>> quit
>> supplying for  the FT100s that have been failing
>
> The semiconductor business of Motorola was sold off a few
> years ago - it's now known as Freescale.
>
> 73, VR2BrettGraham.
>
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-Jack Brindle, W6FB
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