• Motorola ranked highest on ability to deliver fully integrated communications servers in Yankee Group report
• Siemens selects Motorola Embedded Communications Computing as a preferred supplier for AdvancedTCA® based open communications servers
• Motorola teams with Nortel to create the Versatile Service Engine for IMS wireless, wireline and cable applications—realizing Nortel’s vision of a common platform with carrier-grade AdvancedTCA based technology
• Oki Electric selects Motorola's Centellis™ 3000 series open communications server for the next generation of its CenterStage NX5000
• Motorola demonstrates next-generation AdvancedTCA open communications server with 10Gbps Ethernet switching technology extending communications servers into high bandwidth data plane applications including IPTV transport, video on demand and community gaming
• Motorola launches Communications Server Alliance to bring the benefits of open, standards-based communications servers to original equipment manufacturers and network solution providers
• Motorola launches MicroTCA™ communications servers
  

2005

• Announced first Voice over IP (VoIP) Open Application-Enabling Platforms
• Launches MVME3100, further extending leadership in VME Renaissance
• Announces that leading telecom companies Alcatel® and Nortel® are using Motorola AdvancedTCA® platforms to build next generation network equipment
• Spotlights the emergence of communications servers, a new class of server enabling a fundamental shift in the equipment manufacturer's value chain
• Announces collaboration to offer Motorola's NetPlane® Core Services software as a key middleware component of the IBM eServer® Integrated Platform for Telecommunications
• Announces Avantellis™ series, one of the industry's most advanced range of communications servers.
  

2004

• Force Computers acquired by Motorola and integrated with Motorola Computer Group to form Embedded Communications Computing
• Launches MVME6100 the first VME board part of the VME Renaissance
• Launches first AdvancedTCA® Application-Enabling Platform
• Nortel Networks names Motorola Computer Group Supplier of the Year

2003

• AdvancedTCA™ - Motorola Computer Group hosts first Alpha Interoperability Workshop
• Launches VME Renaissance - a period of innovation and performance improvement

2002

• Acquires Blue Wave Systems and adds the ComStruct product line to its portfolio

2001

• Introduces switched IP architecture that enables end-to-end infrastructure solutions

2000

• Champions the industry by introducing the first:
• Processor PMC mezzanine card (PrPMC) using a PowerPC microprocessor and PowerPlus architecture
• CompactPCI® system offering telephony-central office standards compliance in a single-shelf format
• CompactPCI system offering hot swapping and failover capabilities for CompactPCI processor cards
• Complete embedded computing system supporting PICMG® 2.0 and 2.1 CompactPCI specifications

1999

• Implements the PowerPlus II VME Architecture

1998

• PowerPlus VME Architecture for PowerPC microprocessor extends the life of the VMEbus standard by dramatically increasing the performance and integration possible on a single VME card

1996

• The first VMEbus boards powered by Motorola's PowerPC microprocessor enter the market

1994

• Establishes the MVME162, a highly cost-effective and flexible board for embedded control

1992

• Originates the MVME147—the first single-board computer to make extensive use of ASICs, integrating the functions of several boards into one

1988

• Motorola Microsystems becomes Motorola Computer Group, reflecting the group's shift from solely providing VMEbus boards to a group providing hardware, software, systems and development tools

1986

• Revision C to the VMEbus standard is written by Motorola employees and published

1985

• Unveils the first processor and memory board offerings leveraging VMEbus technology

1982

• Motorola, along with Mostek and Signetics/Philips, launches the VMEbus