On Wednesday, Jun 16, 2004, at 02:03 US/Pacific, Philip Stortz wrote: [motorola vs freescale] > they've already changed it on their email Yeah, they've changed some of the names, but the "spinoff" part isn't done till they change the ownership and issue new stock for freescale. This sort of thing has been happening a lot recently. HP/Agilent, siemens/infineon, and perhaps some others. Then there are the mergers and selloffs of particular product lines. We have some chips in some cisco gear that we originally bought from Cirrus, then Basis, and now intel owns them... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics