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Motorola Inc. was able to expedite its product/process development activities through cross functional process mapping (CFMP). This initiative was introduced at the company after management realized that their customers complain mostly about time-related issues. Through this project, Motorola was able to drop work practices that customers thought were unnecessary and non-value-adding. CFMP requires the formation of teams composed of members representing every department involved in the new product development cycle. Then, these groups are asked to map each step within the process from start to end, indicating existing practices and those that need to be implemented. As a result, cycle time has been significantly reduced and improvements have been made in cost-effectiveness, efficiency and quality., As a result of rapid technological advances and the driving force of competition, a company's expertise in new product development (or, more precisely, the speed at which products are brought [...]

When the design team for Motorola's 680X0 family of general-purpose microprocessors began creating a line of embedded processors, they posed a significant challenge to the design-for-test (DFT) team. The ColdFire […]

Not content to cool its heels this summer, Apple reportedly plans to boost the speed of its high-end Power Mac line with the introduction of two systems using the upcoming […]

Good news for the Power Macintosh: the Motorola RISC group and IBM Microelectronics continue to propel the platform forward by tangibly boosting performance in each generation of PowerPC CPUs. Coming […]

Stung by Intel's gains in processor performance, the PowerPC alliance will strike back with higher clock speeds and new chip designs. Don't count your megahertz before they're hatched. That's what […]

Apple and its PowerPC partners in November will release a final specification for a Common Hardware Reference Platform and may also unveil a prototype system. Sources said Apple, IBM Corp. […]

Austin, Texas -- With complex cores playing a growing role in programmable designs, chip giants Motorola and Lucent Technologies are poised to expand the spectrum of available choices for delivering […]

Washington -- IBM's September announcement that it had integrated copper interconnects into a double Damascene process set the agenda for much of the discussion at the 1997 International Electron Devices […]

San Jose- For years, PowerPC was the only fish in a small, Apple-shaped pond. Now, as the architecture moves into an open sea of embedded designs, Motorola Inc. and IBM […]

Norwood, Mass. -- The rush to bring home the bandwidth hit two setbacks last week. A draft standard for so-called 56k pulse-code modulated modems got pushed back to the second […]

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 […]

Everyone is demanding high quality, reliability, timely delivery and ever shrinking geometries, making effective tests with high fault coverage a necessity. So at Motorola, to help it face an intensely […]

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 […]

New York - Proponents of Apple Computer Inc.'s flagging Macintosh platform are preparing their own answer to Intel's ballyhooed "Merced" CPU, in the form of a 64-bit PowerPC microprocessor now […]

Silicon Valley- SRAM suppliers are hashing out a new double-data-rate (DDR) SRAM specification to keep stride with rapidly advancing microprocessor speeds. The spec is expected to generate SRAM cache running […]

Aiming to counter Intel Corp.'s MMX assault on the multimedia market, the PowerPC partners are planning their own set of multimedia extensions to their architecture, sources said. Slated for inclusion […]

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 […]

Think today's Mac compatibles are fast? Be prepared to adjust your standards next year. In fact, you may not need to wait until next year--some Mac systems makers, such as […]

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 […]

The PowerPC partners were under the gun at MicroDesign Resources' Microprocessor Forum last week. Analysts said Apple, IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. need to get speeds up and prices down […]

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 […]

San Mateo, Calif. - Motorola Inc. and IBM Corp. unveiled their technical roadmap for the PowerPC chip, promising dramatic increases in speed and power. According to the companies' plans, existing […]

The PowerPC partners this week will present a road map to the processor's future, including clues about three new chip series that will carry the architecture into the 21st century. […]

Two major licensing agreements in 1995 laid the foundation for the proliferation of at least two of the 28 or so chip-size packages now in development, as this nascent technology […]

MICROCONTROLLER UNITS (MCUs) weren't the biggest technology news in 1995. They didn't bully media pulpits as did PowerPC and Pentium, their high-performance microprocessor siblings. They weren't the subject of a […]

The PowerPC 604 used in some of Apple's upcoming PCI Macintoshes differs slightly from the 601 found in most current models. At this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San […]

Santa Clara, Calif. - Brooktree Corp. and Motorola Inc. separately outlined plans last week to market Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) segmentation and reassembly (SAR) processors that challenge conventional ATM network-adapter […]