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...agreements put an end to dumping and helped American chipmakers gain a 16% share of the Japanese market, a historic high. (Japan insists that the figure is closer to 20% when IBM shipments of chips to its Japanese subsidiary are counted.) Motorola makes the chips that operate Canon's single-lens-reflex camera, for instance, and Texas Instruments supplies the digital processors for Sony compact-disc players. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, American companies are generating $1 billion a year in extra revenues as a result of the trade pacts. U.S. semiconductor companies are turning their attention to South...
...alliance scorns another powerful company, Intel, which has supplied the microprocessors for IBM's machines and has commanded an almost monopoly position as a maker of IBM-compatible chips. Possibly to foster more competition, the new partnership says it will buy advanced processors from Illinois-based Motorola, whose chip business has been suffering lately because some of its big customers, including Unisys, have been in decline. IBM has been busy lining up other partnerships as well. Only a day after announcing its deal with Apple, IBM said it would join forces with Germany's Siemens A.G. to produce a powerful...
...nice things that has happened is that we have got international competition, and it is sending us urgent signals to get with it. The good companies have heard the message. Look at Xerox, Motorola. You can just see the surging excitement of those companies. They don't take any garbage. They are not going to take any unfair competition from overseas. They are willing to fight for their rights. But they have no fear about competing on any playing field anywhere with anybody, because they think they and their people are that good and they are willing to commit resources...
...that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked by radio towers. Potential users include traveling executives and mining engineers who work in remote locations...
...While Motorola stands ready to supply the handsets (initial price: $3,500 apiece), the company will need investment partners to finance the estimated $2.3 billion cost of building and launching the network of 700-lb. satellites. The firm is negotiating a joint venture with British Telecom, as well as with potential investors in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong. Motorola estimates that Iridium will need 700,000 users to become profitable. While that is roughly equivalent to the Pittsburgh white pages, it is less than 1% of the 100 million people around the world who are expected to be using cellular...