Editing Motorola 6800 (section)

=== Motorola's history in semiconductors ===
{{Main|Motorola#History}}
[[File:Motorola Transistor Radio 1960.jpg|thumb|upright | Motorola began making semiconductors in the 1950s.]]
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was founded in 1928; the company name was changed to Motorola in 1947. They began commercial production of transistors at a new US$1.5 million facility in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] in 1955.<ref name = "Motorola AR 1955 Report">{{Cite book | title = Motorola 1955 Annual Report | publisher = Motorola | year = 1956 | location = Chicago | page = 9 | url = https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw/static_files/history-motorola-annual-report-archive-1955-4p12mb-24.pdf | access-date = 2017-02-02 | archive-date = 2016-08-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160810173519/http://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw/static_files/history-motorola-annual-report-archive-1955-4p12mb-24.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

By the mid-1960s, Motorola had expanded their semiconductor division under the direction of Lester Hogan. Motorola's [[transistor]]s and integrated circuits were used in-house for their communication, military, automotive and consumer products and they were also sold to other companies. In 1968, [[Robert Noyce]] left [[Fairchild Semiconductor]] to found [[Intel]], and Fairchild responded by hiring Hogan as the new [[CEO]]. Eight other Motorola employees moved with him, they became known as "[[Hogan's heroes]]". The resulting chaos was nevertheless short lived, and the company continued to grow through this period.<ref name=mostek>{{cite web |url=https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorolas-pioneering-8-bit-6800-origins |website=The Chip Letter |title=Motorola's Pioneering 8-bit 6800 : Origins and Architecture |date=11 December 2023}}</ref>

By 1973 the Semiconductor Products Division (SPD) had sales of $419 million and was the second largest semiconductor company after [[Texas Instruments]].<ref name = "Motorola 1975 Report">{{Cite book | title = Motorola 1975 Annual Report | publisher = Motorola | date = March 1976 | location = Chicago | url = https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw/static_files/history-motorola-annual-report-archive-1975-7p61mb-36.pdf | access-date = 2017-02-02 | archive-date = 2016-08-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160810173514/http://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw/static_files/history-motorola-annual-report-archive-1975-7p61mb-36.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>