[Coco] 68B09E alive and well...

[john dumas]

On 12/18/2011 7:40 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> On 19 Oct 2011 at 14:47, Paulo Lindoso wrote:
>
>> As for the CPU manufacturing, I know Freescale bought Motorola's CPU/MPU
>> division and still manufactures the HC08 and HC11 microcontrollers,
>> which
>> are essentially the evolution of 6800 series.  I did look up for the
>> 6809,
>> but couldn't find anything.
> Not exactly bougth.
>
> Motorola spun off the Semiconductor sector in two steps. The first was discrete
> semiconductors like diodes, logic and stuff like that to OnSemi which they retained part
> ownership at one time. I seem to remember the the figure of 10% ownership.
>
> The second spin off was primarily the MCU and processor group that became Freescale. At
> the beginning, most Freescale employees were ex-Motorolans.  The Freescale spin off came
> during the big crunch. In 2000 Motorola started to reduce workforce world wide from 150,000
> employees to just over 75,000 by 2004. Basically the grandson of the founder ran the
> company into the ground. When he took over Motorola was doing $29 billion in sales. Chris
> left it was doing about $18 billion.
Amen, amen, amen!
Proof that talent isn't alway in the genes.....

MOT was such an exciting place for most of my career,
then along came.......GRANDSON!....

>
> There is still a Motorola semiconductor sector but it is internal to Motorola and does not sell
> anything outside anymore. All the old Motorola ICs and stuf are either Freescale or On Semi.
>
> james

>
> an ex 23yr Motorolan.
Same here.
Took the 2000 package to avoid worse ( some
good friends got much worse......sigh....

cheers,
johnd