The legendary Zilog Z80 CPU is being discontinued after nearly 50 years
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TechSpot— The iconic IC device, developed by Federico Faggin, will soon be phased out, and interested parties only have a few months left to place their orders before Zilog's manufacturing partner ends support for the technology.Read Entire Article
Boing Boing—Zilog to stop making classic Z80 8-bit CPU after 50 years. Zilog's Z80 was a lynchpin of the home computer revolution. The first two 8-bit machines I owned, the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC, both had one. The versatile chip was a regular co-processor in the 16-bit era, and enjoyed a long golden afternoon as a low-power CPU with an instruction set everyone and their gran knows by heart. — Read the rest
Daily Mail—after appearing to have broken down nearly 50 years into its outer space journey. NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun sending readable communications again. The legendary probe had for months been transmitting gibberish back to Earth
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