[Elecraft] OT: Motorola buys Yeasu. Wow!

[VR2BrettGraham]

W6FB added:

>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.

Odd, it was Freescale who could talk to me about an RF
MOSFET Yaesu is rather fond of using but Motorola
discontinued.

On knows nothing of it.

Doesn't matter, no part = no working radio.  Rather doubt
this will change as a result of the acquisition, though
perhaps in future Yaesu will know not to use such EOL
components to begin with.

73, VR2BrettGraham.