• Z80 Chip Turns 50, Open-Source Successor Takes Over From Zilog

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.folklore.computers on Wed Jul 22 07:44:37 2026
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    WhatrCOs left of Zilog Corp started winding down production of its most successful and longest-lived product family two years ago.

    But there is still a lot of affection for the old Z80 CPU as a
    retrocomputing classic, and now a hardware hobbyist has stepped into
    the breach by offering open-source plans for a fully-compatible
    replacement chip, as well as an operation to sell manufactured parts.
    130nm feature size is far from cutting-edge these days, but it does
    allow the chip to be clocked at up to 50MHz, versus the 4MHz speed of
    the original part.

    <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/zilog-z80-turns-50-as-open-source-replacement-heads-for-drop-in-dip40-silicon>
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