Zilog to stop making classic Z80 8-bit CPU after 50 years
by Boing Boing
Boing Boing— 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
Ars Technica—After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip. Z80 powered game consoles, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man, and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M.
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