Doug Winterburn wrote:
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.

Yes, that simply completes a transition that started roughly 20 years ago...

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