Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 190 The Motorola of the Galvin Family
In fact, Tang Huan did not fool Grove in order to put pressure on Grove. He was indeed in contact with Motorola at the same time, and he also contacted Christopher, the third generation of the Galvin family, using the foresight of the reborn. Galvin is Christopher Galvin.You know, Motorola at this stage is still in the Galvin dynasty.

The earliest history of Motorola can be traced back to Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, which produced batteries in 1928. After launching the car radio, the founder Paul Galvin, Paul Galvin, combined the "motor" and the suffix "ola" in "motorcar" "Combined together, created today's brand "Motorola".

The reason why this suffix was singled out was because it was popular at the time. Some companies that produced phonographs, radios and other audio equipment in the early 20th century liked to use the suffix "-ola". The most famous of them was the old gramophone Victrola. up.

Paul Galvin, who had grown up from various previous business setbacks, basically entered the fast track of smooth sailing in his career development after founding Motorola. However, in 1942, a robber broke into his house and killed him. His wife's accident still brought great trauma to his personal life.

At this time, Bob Galvin, the only son of Paul Galvin, had entered Motorola to work.

Speaking of which, Paul Galvin spent all his efforts on cultivating his successors.Bob Galvin was often brought by his side from an early age in order to gain exposure to the environment of business management.Under the influence of his ears and eyes, Bob Galvin lived up to expectations and performed well, and was gradually promoted to the deputy general manager and even the general manager of Motorola.

In 1959, after Paul Galvin, who was only 64 years old, died of illness, Bob Galvin successfully took control of Motorola, and it has continued until now, which can be regarded as the second generation of the Galvin Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Paul Galvin, Motorola's brilliance and performance are countless, and in terms of quality control, it has created the famous "Six Sigma" process improvement system.

According to the development of the historical track, Motorola will shine brightly in the field of communications, but it has also stumbled in aspects such as the "Iridium" project.

Paul Galvin's successor was his son Christopher Galvin. However, because he opposed the divestiture of the semiconductor business, he announced his resignation in 2003 under pressure from shareholders. The Galvin dynasty was passed on to the third generation. it's over.

As for Motorola, it has carried out a series of asset restructuring.

First, in 1999, the SCG (semiconductor component department) in its semiconductor business was separated and became ON Semiconductor (ON Semiconductor), which was listed in 2000.

In 2003, when Christopher Galvin announced his resignation, Motorola paid $2 million, completely split the semiconductor business, and integrated it into an independent company called Freescale, which was Freescale, and went public in 2004.

In 2011, Motorola split its business and eventually became two independent listed companies: Motorola Solutions (Motorola Systems) and Motorola Mobility (Motorola Mobility).

In fact, the former is considered to have inherited the mantle of the old Motorola, while the latter was spun off because of the heavy losses in the mobile device sector. In 2012, it was acquired by Google at a cost of US$125 billion.

After Google obtained the 17000 patents of Motorola Mobility worldwide as it wished, and ensured that its Android could deal with the patent siege of companies such as Apple with peace of mind, it sold the set-top box business Motorola Home to Cable TV for $23.5 billion. Television equipment maker Arris Group, the remainder of Motorola Mobility, was eventually acquired by Lenovo for $29 billion.

On the surface, Motorola's final outcome seems to be a dismantling, selling and selling, but in fact, how can Americans be so stupid, and only some of its departments have been separated. Motorola Solutions is still powerful. After all, buying There is no selling essence, but as long as everyone gets what they need, it is enough.

But no matter what, although Paul Galvin passed on his wealth to future generations, the business empire he built - Motorola has ended up in his family.

Fortunately, in this time and space, these changes have not yet occurred. Motorola is in the second generation of the Galvin Dynasty, and Tang Huan’s information asymmetry advantage is still valid. When in contact with the future third-generation successor, Christopher Galvin, It still has an extraordinary meaning.

Although he will be the leader in the future, it is impossible for Christopher Galvin to hold a high position directly. He still has to start from the grassroots step by step and work hard. The training process can be described as very strict.

As early as in college, Christopher Galvin worked part-time at Motorola. After graduation, he started working full-time at Motorola in 1973, starting as a salesman at the grassroots level and currently working as a sales and marketing manager.

In the original time and space, Christopher Galvin began to enter Motorola's top management in 1983. As for sitting on the throne of Motorola's chairman and CEO, he would have to wait until 1997.

Tang Huan’s method of contacting Christopher Galvin was simple, rude and without technical content. After getting the phone number from the other party’s office, he called directly to ask, EA wanted to purchase 50000 MC68000 CPUs, how would Motorola quote?
The prince also needs real and reliable performance to establish his own prestige, and the MC68000 was successfully developed last year and is in the early stages of market expansion. Tang Huan’s order is like sending a pillow when he is dozing off. Christopher Gao Erwin immediately asked for a visit and a detailed interview.

After Christopher Galvin finished his homework and learned the information about this big customer in detail, he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that he met a big fish.

Now EA sells more than 40 Xiaobawang game consoles in the North American market every month. It is said that each game console uses at least two MOS 6502, and this CPU was developed by the engineers who left the Motorola MC6800 project team. low cost processor.

It seems that EA is going to launch a new product, abandoning the MOS6800 based on MC6502 and focusing on the latest and more powerful MC68000. Christopher Galvin finally came to this conclusion.

So, after meeting with Tang Huan, Christopher Galvin tried it out. Although the answer Tang Huan gave was vague, he was even more surprised. Not only the next-generation Xiaobawang game console uses MC68000, but also other product.

During the conversation, Tang Huan was also carefully observing Christopher Galvin who had just stood up for three generations. He said that the other party obviously had this inherent advantage. Even if the two were bargaining vulgarly, Christopher Galvin Galvin can also display a strong sense of modern entrepreneurial ethics and the modest demeanor of a classic gentleman.

Tang Huan can also show off the elite style, and the conversation between the two has laid the foundation for harmony from the very beginning.

At this time, Motorola's MC68000 did not have large-scale typical application examples such as Apple MAC computers, HP printers, game consoles, etc., and EA's considerable order was undoubtedly a paean to the prospect of MC68000.

Tang Huan still has great expectations for MC68000. He hopes that Motorola can make it support virtual memory features as soon as possible, so that Zheru can provide multitasking functions at the operating system level.

Although Christopher Galvin doesn't understand obscure techniques, it doesn't prevent him from carefully recording. The effect of Galvin's family on cultivating heirs can be seen. Xiangjiang's family inheritance is obviously inferior to others, at least there is no dude habits.

Of course, Tang Huan also proposed a request for a second manufacturer. This concept has been proposed for many years by the U.S. Department of Defense, which purchases a large number of high-tech products. Motorola, which has benefited from military orders, is naturally familiar with this mechanism. Christopher Galvin, who was born in sales, was far from knowing that Tang Huan, a high-tech cheater, had the ability to know the autumn from a leaf, so he immediately agreed to discuss this issue seriously after returning home.

In the original time and space, with the improvement of the production process, the operating speed of the MC68000 series CPU has been increased again and again. In 1985, designed by Hitachi, Motorola jointly launched the 68HC000 using CMOS technology, and the frequency reached 20MHz.

So throughout the 1980s, the MC68000 with excellent performance had a long life, as evidenced by Apple's Macintosh.

Therefore, Tang Huan was very sincere in his cooperation. After negotiations, he not only accompanied Christopher Galvin, an elite from a well-known family, to taste red wine and play golf, but also took him to visit the Shennong Fund, Zheru and EA, and even let him take a look at the MC386 prototype in the 68000 project, which can be said to be the ultimate in public relations.

With the deepening of understanding, Christopher Galvin became more and more aware of the value of Tang Huan. If he really only made a one-shot deal, he would not be worthy of taking charge of Motorola in the future. Positively responding to the kindness, they became a pair of good friends, and Tang Huan also inquired some information about Motorola's communication industry from the other party.

(End of this chapter)