On December 19, 2012, ARRIS announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility's Home unit (the former General Instrument company) from Google for $2.35 billion in cash and stock.
The DCII standard was originally developed in 1997 by General Instrument, which is now the Home and Network Mobility division of Motorola.
In 1990, General Instrument (which was later acquired by Motorola) demonstrated that it was possible to use digital compression to deliver high quality HDTV in a standard 6-MHz television channel.
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R. K. "Bob" Booher, an engineer at Autonetics, invented four-phase logic, and communicated the idea to Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor; Wanlass promoted this logic form at General Instrument Microelectronics Division.
GI-SP0256 refers to a family of closely related NMOS LSI chips manufactured by General Instrument in the early 1980s, able to model the human vocal tract by a software programmable digital filter, creating a digital output converted into an analog signal through an external low pass filter.
Company executives were Barak Kassar, founder and CEO, formerly of Wink Communications, Jim Spare, COO, formerly of General Instrument (now Motorola) and WebTV (now Microsoft), Alan Teague, CTO, formerly of Kinecta, Susan Evans, formerly of Publicis, Sandy Frank, four-time Emmy winning writer for David Letterman and Tim Myers, a CLIO winning animator
Specifically, the system's data stream was carried on C-Band satellite onboard CNN's (later WGN's) transponder using General Instrument (now part of Motorola) InfoCipher 1500P satmodem technology.
Starting in the 1970s, companies such as General Instrument (now SeaBeam Instruments, part of L3 Klein) in the United States, Krupp Atlas (now Atlas Hydrographic) and Elac Nautik (now part of L3 Communications) in Germany, Simrad (now Kongsberg Maritime) in Norway and RESON in Denmark developed systems that could be mounted to the hull of large ships, and then small boats (as technologies improved and operating frequencies increased).