In 1976, Federico Faggin left Intel to found Zilog and launch the Z80, an 8-bit processor that would power tens of millions of computers, consoles, and devices for the next two decades. Fifty years later, it is still in use.
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Fifty years after its release, the Zilog Z80 is still produced to order, runs in dozens of open-source projects, and still haunts emulators. A look back at the chip that shaped our childhoods.
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The Zilog Z80, released in July 1976, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Much more than an 8-bit CPU: the matrix of our first machines, from the ZX Spectrum to the Japanese MSX, via the Game Boy and its direct descendants.
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Fifty years after its introduction in 1976, the Zilog Z80 remains one of the most produced chips in history. We look back at its DNA, its machines, its legacy.
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