Motorola is an international communication company based in Schaumburg illiniois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in1928. The name Motorola was adopted in 1947, but the word had been used as trademark since the 1930s. Founded Paul Galvin came up with the name Motorola when his company started manufacturing car radios. A number of early companies
making phonographs, radios and other audio equipment in the car radios. A number of early companies making phonographs, radios and other audio equipment in the early 20th century used the suffix -ola, the most famous being Victrola, there was also a company that made jukeboxes called Rockola, and a film editing device called a moviola.
Most of Motorola's product have been radio-related,starting with a battery eliminator for through the first walkie-talkie in the world,defense electronics, cellular infrastructure equipment,and mobile phone manufacturing. The company was also strong in semiconductor technology, including integrated circuits used in computers. Motorola has been the main supplier for the microprocessors used in Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Power Macintosh personal computers. The chip used in the latter computers, the power PC family was developed with IBM and in a partnership with
Apple(Known as the AIM alliance). Motorola also has a diverse line of communication products, including satellite systems, digital cable boxes and modems.
On October 6,2003, Motorola announced that it would spin off its semiconductor product
sector into a separate company called Free scale Semiconductor, Inc. The new company
began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 16th of the following year. The Six Sigma quality system was developed at Motorola even though it became most well known because of its use by General Electric. It was created by engineer Bill Smith, under the direction of bob Galvin (son of founder paul Gavin) when he was running the company. Motorola University is one of main place that provides Six Sigma training.
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