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Soon after the year 2000, wireless vendors expect to complete work on new standards that will let mobile users enjoy full Internet access, videoconferencing, and other advanced data and video […]

Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) has teamed up with Eastman Kodak Co. to develop advanced CMOS imager (ACI) technology to be used in digital imaging products such as digital […]

Boston - Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector has begun to re-evaluate its VirtuoVue display technology, pausing to plot its future strategic direction, a company spokesman said. The new semiconductor display […]

Long promised but now closer to reality: at the recent Macworld Expo, IBM and Motorola demonstrated their respective systems to run both the Mac OS and Windows NT. And Apple […]

At long last, Apple's oft-repeated intention to broadly license its operating system shows signs of momentum. A spate of recent licensees--most of which will use the forthcoming, industry-standard Common Hardware […]

Boston - Three-Five Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. have started selective sampling of miniature-display monitors to OEMs. The unique characteristics of tiny, high-resolution minidisplays (see Sept. 21, page 123) offer […]

Led by Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc., Motorola, Siemens Microelectronics, ETAS Inc. and Hewlett-Packard, a new group has been formed to develop a debug-interface standard for embedded-control applications. The Global Embedded […]

Amsterdam, Netherlands - Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector will use the IBC '98 broadcasters conference late this week to detail a flexible consumer-electronics platform, dubbed Blackbird, on which many of its […]

SCHAUMBURG, ILL. -- Motorola Inc., struggling with finances and market focus, last week announced it is abandoning Celestri, its most ambitious satellite-communications project yet, and is instead joining forces with […]

Scottsdale, Ariz. -- When the U.S. government's most secretive intelligence service asked Motorola's Secure Telecommunications Products team to redesign a cell phone encryption device, everyone knew it wouldn't be business […]

Dresden, Germany -- In a billion-dollar game where timing is everything, Motorola Inc. and Siemens AG last week committed to having a 300-mm pilot line up and running at Siemens' […]

Motorola has figured out a way to make a 100-percent software-based modem. This is, as anyone who follows this market knows, an intriguing idea, but Patrick Casey, marketing director of […]

Austin , Texas -- Motorola Inc. is planning to offer design engineers increased functionality over its Web site by year's end via an interactive memory-model generator. The company has partnered […]

Boston -- The graphics LCDs that are the rage of the notebook computer market are a bust in the automotive market, according to U.S. auto industry executives at the recent […]

Motorola Inc. plans to expand its fledgling efforts to penetrate the flash market with the introduction of micro-BGA-packaged versions of its licensed divided-bit-line NOR (DINOR) devices, as well as sub-2-V […]

Field-emission displays (FEDs) were the talk of the Society of Information Displays show here last week, as four major companies announced significant moves in that arena. Micron Display Technology has […]

Cupertino, Calif. - Embedding continuous-bit-rate voice into packet services has garnered enough interest that the technology is being taken to the daughter-card and chip-set level. Motorola Inc.'s Information Systems Group […]

Las Vegas: Motorola Inc. hopes to boost the market for Macintosh computers by freely distributing a reference design for building PowerPC systems. In addition to Macintosh, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company […]

Austin, Texas - The market for content-addressable memory (CAM)-a specialty product needed for fast address translation-is being driven by the expanding market for asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) switching hardware. Now new players […]

Boston - The PowerPC platform, also known as CHRP or Common Hardware Reference Platform, is coming-it is just late. Executives of the PowerPC AIM Alliance-which is made up of IBM […]

Power Computing Corp. has attracted lots of enthusiastic attention lately, even in the daily papers. But much of the coverage has missed the real character of the company's achievement. Megahertz […]

Phoenix -- Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has developed a low-power 8-bit microcontroller in a 0.9-V process. The IC-a version of the 68HC08 MCU-will be described at the European Solid-State Circuits […]