The ECC business, based in Tempe, Arizona, had revenue of $520m in 2006 and a 1,000 strong workforce serving customers in telecommunications, medical imaging, defense and aerospace, and industrial automation.
Though Motorola has always been strong in embedded computing, ECC was only set up in 2004 when it paid an undisclosed price to buy Force Computers from Solectron. Ironically, that was the same year that it moved out of the component business and spun off its chip operation as Freescale.
Emerson CEO David Farr said the combination of Motorola’s ECC business with the $100m embedded computing business it acquired as part of Artesyn last year will establish its Network Power subsidiary as a leader in the embedded computing industry.
Both companies’ technologies feature industry standards known as Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) and Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MicroTCA). These standards are designed to appeal to telecom companies because they increase network capacity while lowering the total cost of ownership.
