Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither Z80-RIO nor PLZ were targeting the regular consumer market when they were brought to market in the late 1970s, but were part of Zilog’s focus on industrial ...

It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that gave so many engineers and ...

The chip was also sold as the XLRer go-faster upgrade for the TRS-80 Model 4. In the end, Hitachi licenced its design back to Zilog as the Z61480, which in 1988 formed the basis of the Z180 [PDF ...

Opinion It lasted 50 years, but history finally claimed it. Zilog has called time on the Z80 CPU. Readers may have owned one ...