dpb wrote:

That again is an oversimplification -- was in E TN where there was a
nearby facility of, Motorola/Quasar/Sylvania/I forget the pedigree as it
went through a succession trying to keep it alive. In the end, the
labor costs were the killer as compared to offshore and despite several
major retoolings for the electronics portions, the cabinetry and
peripherals remained the high-cost items they couldn't compete against
and eventually the whole facility went away...but it was the last US
production facility and management didn't walk away early or lightly.

Moto has also sold off it's SPS (Semiconductor Product Sector) to
Freescale. Their main focus now is radios and cell phones and
infrastructure.