Word: motorolas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another repeat of a vote last year, the committee supported a resolution opposing the sale of electronic eqipment by Motorola to South African military or police...
Workers seem pleased with the changes the new technology has brought. "When people come into the Police Department now they can really say. 'You guys have come a long way,'" says Communications Clerk Carl A. Tempesta, a department worker since 1978. Tempesta gestures to the $250,000 Motorola communications console he sits behind, installed in 1979, and computer by his right hand. "They say, 'Hey! This is a police department!' It makes the university campus police a professional organization," he says...
What's in it for the corporate sponsors? For some it maintains status, tradition and pre-eminence in their field; Coca-Cola has supported the past twelve Olympics. Others want to strut their stuff. Motorola is providing radio communications, and a spokesman boasts, "If this system were given to a third-rate world power, it would make them a second-rate world power." Buick will put out a limited line of 10,000 Centuries called the Olympia-and charge $406 extra. All the backers expect to benefit on the bottom line from the Games' luster and class...
American firms are still far ahead in sales of microprocessors, chips that can perform computations and manipulate information, rather than just store it. In this market, the showdown is between Intel and Motorola. Intel may pull away be cause of its new alliance with IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer. Last December, IBM bought 12% of Intel for $250 million, and this summer it increased its share to 13.7%. When IBM designed its immensely popular personal computer, the company chose an Intel microprocessor to be the heart of the machine. Because many companies are coming out with personal...
...microprocessor, which is expected to have its peak sales in about five years and has twice the computational power of the 16-bit chip that is the current industry pacesetter. Western Electric, Hewlett-Packard and NCR Corp. have already unveiled 32-bit chips in hopes of passing Intel and Motorola in the microprocessor race...