On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 10:19, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:29:08AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk > wrote: > > Something manufactured in China with a "Motorola" brand (owned by > > Lenovo, an RoC company) may seem like a safer bet than one with a > > "Umidigi" or "Doogee" brand. Remember when Motorola was a US company? > > When they had their own important microprocessors (6800, 68000, etc.)? > > I wonder how many pieces Motorola split into. Microprocessors was split > off and I think was renamed freescale, then NXP took over. Qualcomm tried > to get NXP but was not allowed. Their cell phones went to Google and > then Lenovo. Their enterprise stuff (wifi and logistics management > devices) went to Zebra, and then they sold the wifi part to Extreme > Networks. Plenty of other bits went in who knows what direction. > I own a few shares (and loved getting annual reports back in the Iridium project days where the company had a major Space Division), so got some notices of things. I had a few shares of Freescale at one point... Having share holdings didn't lead to getting all that much knowledge about the "spinning" :-( Your list is more complete than what I was aware of. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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