Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024.

the first 4-bit CPU. The Zilog Z80 was then released in July 1976, conceived as a software-compatible "extension" and enhancement of the Intel 8080 processor. Developed by a team of just 12 people ...

The Z80 was also used in other products such as synthesizers, printers and other everyday devices - it was a reliable and simple processor. The 16-bit successor Zilog Z8000 did not even come close ...

Zeal 8-bit Computer Complete Edition is a retro computing kit that includes a motherboard with a 10 MHz Zilog Z80 processor, a video board, and a 3D printed case. Available for $180, it arrives ...

SAN JOSE — At the Embedded Systems Conference here, Zilog Inc. demonstrated how it hopes to prolong the life of the venerable Z80 8-bit processor architecture. The Campbell, Calif.-based company ...

Webserver-i (eZ80-L92), the second product in Zilog Inc.'s eZ80 microprocessor series ... Sheridan said the eZ80 architecture enables the processors to run up to 16x faster than Z80 MPUs while ...

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In a Product Change Notification (PCN) published on April 15, Zilog (now owned by Littelfuse) announced the End of Life for a range of Z80 products, specifically virtually all of the Z84C00 range.

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor that first hit the market in the 1970s. It was the beating heart of classic computers like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the TRS-80, as well as game ...

Introduced by ZiLOG in the early '70s, the Z80 was an impressive processor for its time. The original Z80 (a 2MHz part) was a souped-up version of the then-popular Intel 8080 processor. While ...

Those programs were not compatible with its processor. The Zilog Z80 was compatible with programs that ran on Intel 8080 CPUs. Allen believed that an add-in card for the Apple II would allow ...