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 Motorola
started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. The name Motorola was
adopted in 1947, but the word had been used as a trademark since the 1930s.
Founders Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin came up with the name Motorola when the
company started manufacturing car radios. He created the name “Motorola” to
suggest sound in motion (from “motor” and the then-popular suffix “ola”). The
Motorola brand name became so well-known that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation
later changed its name to Motorola, Inc. Many of Motorola's products have been
radio-related, starting with a battery eliminator for radios, 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 PowerPC 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
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