摩托罗拉公司(Motorola, Inc.)

美国无线通讯、电子系统和半导体的制造商。总公司设在伊利诺州绍姆堡，1928年由高尔文兄弟（Paul and Joseph Galvin）於芝加哥创立，当时名为高尔文制造公司。1930年该公司开始贩卖一种称作「摩托罗拉」的低价位汽车收音机。1947年公司改名为摩托罗拉，次年研发了一种电视机。1952年摩托罗拉取得资格设计贝尔实验室的电晶体，1956年开始出售给其他制造商。1962年该公司在市场上拥有4,000多种不同的电子零件。1974年摩托罗拉首次将微处理器贩售给电脑制造商。1993年该公司同IBM公司和苹果电脑公司合作首次开发出消费者精简指令运算（RISC）晶片，即PowerPC。在内建微处理器市场上（如在厨房电器、呼叫器、电视游戏和掌上型电脑等非常普遍）摩托罗拉成为领先的制造商。在行动电话系统的开发上也独占鳌头。1989年该公司研发了MicroTAC弹盖行动电话，并很快成为国际地位的象徵。

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Motorola, Inc.

U.S. manufacturer of wireless communications, electronic systems, and semiconductors. The company, headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., was founded in 1928 in Chicago by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin as the Galvin Manufacturing Corp. In 1930 the company began selling a low-cost automobile radio, called the Motorola. In 1947 the company changed its name to Motorola, and the next year it introduced a television set. Motorola licensed the design for transistors from Bell Laboratories in 1952 and began to sell them to other manufacturers in 1956. By 1962 the company had more than 4,000 different electronic components on the market. In 1974 Motorola released its first microprocessor for sale to computer makers. In 1993 the company developed the first consumer RISC (reduced-instruction-set computing) chip, the PowerPC, with IBM Corp. and Apple Computer, Inc. In the market for embedded microprocessors—ubiquitous in such common items as kitchen appliances, pagers, video games, and handheld personal computers—Motorola became the leading manufacturer. Motorola was also a leader in the development of cellular telephone systems. In 1989 the company introduced the MicroTAC flip phone, which quickly became an international status symbol.