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 markets, as ...

The register-file-based Z8's core has 50 basic instructions and as many as 256 8-bit registers in RAM. On-chip peripherals are memory-mapped, and you access them through the register file. The RAM ...

Zilog, the 30 year old company which produced the Z80, has emerged after significant business restructuring. Two years ago Zilog had $300m of debt and was focused on communications, based on Tensilica ...

San Jose, calif. — ZiLOG, Inc. has extended current Z8 Encore! flash microcontroller family to include devices with lower memory sizes. The additional Z8 Encore! devices support up to 4KB of Flash ...

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zilog, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation (NAS: IXYS) and a pioneer supplier of microcontrollers (MCUs) providing solutions for the industrial, ...

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor that first hit the market in the 1970s. It was the beating heart of classic computers like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the TRS-80, as well as game consoles ...

Cypress-based Universal Electronics Inc., a maker of remote controls for home electronics, said Thursday it bought the assets of a company it tried to take over in a hostile bid a year ago. Universal ...

MILPITAS, Calif. & BIEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zilog, a wholly owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS) and a trusted supplier of application specific, embedded micro controller (MCU ...

Why it matters: Zilog is retiring the Z80 after 48 years on the market. Originally developed as a project stemming from the Intel 8080, it eventually rose to become one of the most popular and widely ...