Motorola 8167 User Manual - Page 22

Singapore Telecom. Other major orders were received in Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong. In paging, Motorola was the first manufacturer to have a 280 MHz base station type accepted in Hong Kong, and the first to provide pagers for the newly allocated spectrum. In Japan, we introduced frequency synthesized pagers for Nippon Telegraph & Telephone. These pagers allow customers like NTT to quickly change the operating frequency for different system locations. Major orders for pagers were placed by customers in Canada, Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Indonesia and Singapore. More than 500,000 pagers were shipped to Taiwan during 1990. We introduced the Advisor™ pager, an alphanumeric unit with a four-line display and up to 32,000 characters of memory. Full production shipments of the Wristwatch™ pager began in the fourth quarter. Large orders were received from several major customers. Motorola purchased Contemporary Communications Corp. of New Rochelle, N.Y. Contemporary holds one of only three nationwide one-way signaling licenses. The new services are being called EMBARC Communications Services. EMBARC (Electronic Mail Broadcast to A Roaming Computer) will use the oneway radio channel to transmit paragraph-size text messages, database updates and information services to laptop and notebook computers and personal organizers utilizing Motorola radio receivers. Semiconductor Products Sector Major contributions to our customers' success enabled the Semiconductor Products Sector to achieve record sales and orders in 1990. Sales increased 13% to $3.4 billion and orders advanced 10%. Operating profits rose to $314 million from $189 million in 1989. The sector gained market share in every major region of the world. The growth in orders was led by Asia-Pacific, Europe and Japan. International orders exceeded those in North America for the first time in the sector's history. Our focus on the Japanese market produced numerous design wins and expanded sales with key customers. Order growth was highest in the following four major market segments: personal computer/workstation, communications, automotive and consumer. Demand was higher in most major product categories, led by digital signal processors, fast static random access memories, microcontrollers and microprocessors, along with CMOS gate arrays, MOS digital-analog and bipolar analog components. The majority of these products contain applicationspecific, customer-specified or proprietary features. The movement toward higher systems integration on silicon resulted in new or expanded customer partnerships. For example, we entered into a technology agreement with Philips for developing key components for compact disk-interactive (CD-I), a consumer-oriented multimedia system. We provided critical M68000 family microprocessor support to Apple Computer for its new Macintosh* family. We are developing a custom 16-bit microcontroller, in partnership with Toshiba, Nippondenso and Toyota, to use in future Toyota vehicles. Our partnership with Northern Telecom produced successful demonstrations of industry standard components for the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). New technology partnerships were signed with Delco Electronics, Cray Computer, IBM, Alcatel, and other major customers. In a three-way partnership with Echelon Corp. and Toshiba, we will manufacture and market Echelon's Neuron* Multiprocessor. This intelligent controller can sense, control and communicate with other Neuron processors in a local operating network in factories, offices, homes and vehicles, as well as end-use products such as copiers and security systems. To help our customers succeed, we introduced a spectrum of new technologies and products with higher integration, performance and features. More than 100 customers have adopted the MC68040, our thirdgeneration 32-bit microprocessor for applications ranging from multiuser systems to personal computers. The "040" delivers 20 million instructions per second and a sustained rate of 3.5 million floating point operations per second at 25MHz, 30% faster than its closest competitor. Although it is a complete redesign of our M68000 architecture, the 68040 is compatible with the family's existing $4 billion software base. We also introduced applications-oriented processors such as the 68340 Data Movement Engine, designed to move large data blocks rapidly. The new 96002 Media Engine creates vivid color graphics and stereo sound, with a peak performance of 50 million floating point operations per second. The 68EC030 is designed for embedded control applications. The DSP56100 family of 16-bit digital signal processors for voice and data applications offers cumulative performance of up to 240 million operations per second. Our 88000 RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) family continued to gain customer acceptance as a result of our strategies to provide superior performance, software standards and long-term software compatibility. Propelled by open architecture standardization and the 88open Consortium, the 88000's binary compatibility standard (BCS) permits compliant software to run on 88000-based systems from numerous manufacturers. In computing alone, more than 60 different system configurations were certified, spanning portable PCs to fault-tolerant systems. The 88000 software library expanded in 1990 from 150 to 1,500 applications ranging from spreadsheets to specialized programs. Our second-generation RISC engine, the 88110, progressed on an aggressive development schedule for introduction in 1991. It is based on Symetric Superscaler™ technology, permitting instructions to be executed 20