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Zilog
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ZiLOG is a manufacturer of 8-bit CPUs, and is most famous for its Z80 series. Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 8080, and the Z80 shared many features with it.

After the Z80 Zilog introduced 16-bit and 32-bit processors, but these were not particularly successful, and the company refocused on the microcontroller market, producing both basic CPUs and application-specific integrated circuits/standard products (ASICs/ASSPs) built around a CPU core. As well as producing processors, Zilog have produced several other components. One of the most famous was the Z8530 serial communications controller as found on Sun SPARCstations and SPARCservers up to the SPARCstation 20.

The company became a subsidiary of Exxon in 1980, but the management and employees bought it back in 1989. It went public in 1991, but was acquired in 1998 by Texas Pacific Group, who, after chip prices plummeted, reorganized the company in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001.

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7 Zilog chips in collection: show thumbnails
 Z80
   Z80A 8400W2N A
   Z80A Z8400APS
   Z80 Z0840004PSC
   Z80 Z84C0006PEC
 Z80 peripheral
   Z80 peripheral Z84C3004PEC CTC
   Z80 peripheral Z84C4004PEC SIO/O
 Z8000
   Z8001APS