Motorola 8167 User Manual - Page 6

Gary L. Tooker President and Chief Operating Officer additional cost adjustments in the event of changes in business conditions. At the same time, we see continued opportunities to provide our customers with products that enable them to be more efficient. Motorola traditionally has been able to build on its strengths and gain against its competitors during low points in the economic cycle, and we plan to continue our investment in research and development. Global Expansion Our customer base has become more global, and we are expanding accordingly. Non-U.S. revenues as a percentage of the total reached 44% in 1990, compared with 25% in 1985, on an international market basis. In the pages that follow, you will see how electronic products from Motorola are bringing the world closer together. Among the highlights of our global achievements in 1990: •In Japan, our'MicroTAC™ personal cellular telephone won the Foreign Product Design Award from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Our speech coder technology was selected as the official standard for digital cellular in Japan. We delivered the 10 millionth microcontroller to Sony for use in its line of 8 mm camcorders, and the 3 millionth controller to Canon for its EOS camera family. •In Asia, we opened a major new semiconductor facility in Hong Kong, provided the radio system for the Asian Games in China, and shipped more than 500,000 pagers to Taiwan. We began supplying CT-2 digital cordless phones in Singapore and won awards for cellular phone systems in Indonesia and China. In India, our Motorola Blue Star joint venture produced its first data communications products. •In Europe, we will supply the communications system for the Channel Tunnel linking England and France. We developed major elements of the Pan-European Digital Cellular System. In emerging Eastern European markets, we sold two-way radios in Romania and Yugoslavia, and cellular telephones in Hungary. •In the United States, we moved toward completion of a nationwide voice and data communications vehicle location network and unveiled our technology for Wireless In-Building Networks. These are only a few examples of how Motorola is serving new customers in a changing world. You will see many more throughout this report. New Technologies In addition to new technologies developed by our individual businesses, we continued research on systems that draw on our strengths throughout Motorola. One such example is the proposed Iridium™ global personal communications system, which has the potential to allow any human being on Earth - whether on land, at sea or in the air - to communicate with