Motorola: Yes, I'm aware of "buy domestic" campaigns, both
in recessions and in times of distress.
But Motorola has more or less officially declared that they
will go one step further from outsourcing, the step to "OEMming".
OK strategy when products do not change very often, but not
the best one when the market is the opposite, new features,
new functions twice a year, and most important, large risk
of bugs and recalls, delays, missing or old inventories, etc.
Not least the ability to rapidly ramp up production.
Personally I have expected some security, military contracts
for Motorola, but from the background of trying to
combine "military" and consumer business this also
seems to be "tough".
Compare TI who systematically has done the opposite during a
long process, streamlined, spinning off the military
functions. (and now Motorola officially declares
further dependency on TI DSPs)
Ilmarinen
P.S. However, "security is a sensitive subject"
(the need to both gather and share information but not
misuse it, probably the Topic of this time in history)
P.P.S. I once worked in a long distance switch with the
right to eavesdrop to detect connections not properly
disconnected, in the bad old relay days, a test of
character. |
