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.
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