Editing Motorola (section)

===Post World War II===
[[File:Motorola Tube Box.jpg|thumb|Motorola vacuum tube carton]]

The last plant was listed in Quincy, Illinois at 1400 North 30th Street where 1,200 employees made radio assemblies for both homes and automobiles.<ref>Illinois Manufacturers Directory, Manufacturers' News, Inc., Chicago, IL, 1962, p. 1108</ref>

In 1969, [[Neil Armstrong]] spoke the famous words "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" from the [[Moon]] on a Motorola transceiver.<ref name="money.cnn.com">{{cite news | url=http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/28/technology/motorola_google_android.fortune/index.htm | publisher=[[CNNMoney.com]] | title=Motorola gets in the game | date=September 28, 2009 | first=Jessi | last=Hempel | accessdate=May 30, 2012 | archive-date=June 20, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620081747/http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/28/technology/motorola_google_android.fortune/index.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the first hand-held portable telephone.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Consumers/Corporate/US-EN/History/_Documents/history-1973-Portable-Telephone.pdf |title=Historic News Releases |publisher=Motorola Inc. |accessdate=November 12, 2024 |archive-date=April 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110419100827/http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Consumers/Corporate/US-EN/History/_Documents/history-1973-Portable-Telephone.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1974, Motorola introduced its first microprocessor, the 8-bit [[MC6800]], used in automotive, computing and video game applications.<ref>"Motorola: 75 Years of Intelligent Thinking", 2003, page 42</ref> The 6800 was the basis for the more popular [[MOS Technology 6502]] which was made by former Motorola employees. That same year, Motorola sold its television business to the Japan-based Matsushita – the parent company of [[Panasonic]].{{fact|date=March 2025}}

In 1980, Motorola's next generation 32-bit microprocessor, the [[MC68000]], led the wave of technologies that spurred the computing revolution in 1984, powering devices from companies such as [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[Commodore International|Commodore]], [[Atari Corp.|Atari]], [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]], and [[Hewlett-Packard]].<ref>"Motorola – A Journey Through Time & Technology" pages 75 – 79</ref>

[[File:2007Computex e21Forum-MartinCooper.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Martin Cooper (inventor)|Dr. Martin Cooper]] of Motorola made the first private handheld mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007.]]
In September 1983, the U.S. [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) approved the [[DynaTAC 8000X]] telephone, the world's first commercial cellular device. By 1998, cell phones accounted for two thirds of Motorola's gross revenue.<ref>John F. Mitchell, Time Magazine Milestones section, July 6, 2009, p.17</ref>

In 1986 Motorola acquired [[Storno]]<ref>Encyclopedia.com - https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/motorola-inc</ref> resulting in a whole new range of innovative communication products for the new owner,<ref>Storno History (English) - https://www.storno.co.uk/storno.htm</ref> including the [[Nordic Mobile Telephone|NMT]], an automatic cellular phone system, and made Motorola a more central player in the early stages of the [[GSM]] standardization process in 1987.<ref>AAU - https://vbn.aau.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/202145375/ICTin_DK_Info.pdf</ref> With this addition Motorola strengthened its position in [[Europe]] significantly. As Motorola's European development arm, Storno developed a GSM terminal in 1992.<ref>Motorola Solutions - https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw/static_files/1986_Motorola_Annual_Report.pdf</ref>

On January 29, 1988, Motorola sold its [[Arcade (village), New York|Arcade, New York]] facility and automotive alternators, electromechanical speedometers and tachometers products to [[Prestolite Electric]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Detailed History |url=http://www.prestolite.com/pgs_about/about_us_timeline.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323140651/http://www.prestolite.com/pgs_about/about_us_timeline.php |archive-date=March 23, 2012 |access-date=June 13, 2012 |publisher=Prestolite Electric Inc}}</ref>

In 1996, Motorola released the [[Motorola StarMax]], which was a [[Macintosh clone]] that was licensed by Apple and it came with [[System 7]]. However, with the return of [[Steve Jobs]] to Apple in 1997, Apple released [[Mac OS 8]]. Because the clone makers' licenses were valid only for Apple's System 7 operating system, Apple's release of Mac OS 8 left the clone manufacturers unable to ship a current Mac OS version without negotiation with Apple.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Steven|last=Beale|title=Mac OS 8 Ships with No License Deal|magazine=Macworld|volume=14|pages=34–36|date=October 1997|issue=10}}</ref> A heated telephone conversation between Jobs and then Motorola CEO [[Christopher Galvin]] resulted in the termination of Motorola's clone contract, the discontinuation of the Motorola StarMax, and the long-favored Apple being demoted to "just another customer" mainly for PowerPC CPUs. Apple (and Jobs) did not want Motorola to limit the PowerPC CPU supply so as retaliation, Apple and IBM expelled Motorola from the [[AIM alliance]] and forced Motorola to stop producing any PowerPC CPUs, leaving IBM to make all future PowerPC CPUs. However, Motorola was later reinstated into the alliance in 1998.<ref name="Jobs Makes Headway">{{cite news|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB892507589126559000|url-status = live|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20150426152356/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB892507589126559000|archivedate = April 26, 2015|title = Jobs Makes Headway at Apple, But Not Without Much Turmoil|date = April 14, 1998|accessdate = March 16, 2019|newspaper = Wall Street Journal|last = Carlton|first = Jim}}</ref>

Neglect of the emerging digital cellular standards led to Motorola's end as the dominant leader in mobile phone handsets in the second half of the 1990s.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2000-04-17 |title=Motorola's Comeback |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2000-04-17/motorolas-comeback |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> In 1996 it fell behind [[Ericsson]] in the growing market for digital phones in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short Take: Motorola falls behind in digital handset market |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/short-take-motorola-falls-behind-in-digital-handset-market/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=CNET |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Journal |first=Quentin HardyStaff Reporter of The Wall Street |date=1997-02-25 |title=Report: Motorola Is Losing The Digital-Phone Battle |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB856832610899290000 |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> In 1998, Motorola was overtaken by [[Nokia]] as the world's biggest seller of mobile phone handsets.<ref name="money.cnn.com" /> The company was also struggling in [[microchips]] (which together with cell phones accounted for the majority of Motorola's revenue), cellular infrastructure equipment, and the [[Iridium Communications|Iridium]] satellite project that it had invested in.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barboza |first=David |date=1999-07-14 |title=Motorola Rolls Itself Over; After a Bad Year, Almost Everything Is Coming Up Rosy, and Wireless |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/14/business/motorola-rolls-itself-over-after-bad-year-almost-everything-coming-up-rosy.html |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Motorola sold some businesses during this period, including in 1999 a portion of its semiconductor business—the Semiconductor Components Group (SCG)-- and formed onsemi (then [[ON Semiconductor]]), whose headquarters were located in [[Phoenix, Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.onsemi.com/
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| archive-date = April 20, 2013
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