MOT Sends G4 Packing To Kuala Lumpur!

davegeedavegee
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
How's about this little nugget... It seems the G4 has been sent packing from Texas for a long over seas voyage.



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Motorola is pleased to announce the transfer of final test of the MPC744x and MPC745x (Vger and Apollo product lines) from Motorola BAT-1 Austin, Texas to Motorola Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (KLM). All test, burn in, and inspection process flows and equipment will remain the same. The transfer to KLM is a factory consolidation as a result of the closure of the BAT1 factory. Vger product lines will begin test in KLM in June of 2002. Apollo product lines will begin test in KLM in July 2002.

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Proof Linkage:



<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=Motorola+Kuala+Lumpur+MPC745x"; target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=Motorola+Kuala+Lumpur+MPC745x</a>;



Now why did they do it? Did they send the G4 packing since Apple is going IBM? Discuss, speculate, fight and bicker as needed.



Dave



[ 10-05-2002: Message edited by: DaveGee ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    gumby5647gumby5647 Posts: 241member
    I would imagine that they moved it overseas because it can be fab'd cheaper over there. But most importantly, it now free's up that faciality, indicating a possible change over to .13nm or .09nm



  • Reply 2 of 5
    davegeedavegee Posts: 2,765member
    [quote]Originally posted by gumby5647:

    <strong>I would imagine that they moved it overseas because it can be fab'd cheaper over there. But most importantly, it now free's up that faciality, indicating a possible change over to .13nm or .09nm



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    "The transfer to KLM is a factory consolidation as a result of the closure of the BAT1 factory."
  • Reply 3 of 5
    telomartelomar Posts: 1,804member
    They're just cutting costs. There really isn't anything much to it.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Uh...this was posted about heavily over two months ago.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    It's obviously to cut costs especially with the Motorola layoffs that have been happening over the last few months. Furthermore I think there are plenty of chip related threads here to discuss this at. Thanks for the link but as stated by another member...been there done that.



    [ 10-05-2002: Message edited by: Bodhi ]</p>
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