The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was … See more

At Fairchild Semiconductor, and later at Intel, physicist and engineer Federico Faggin had been working on fundamental transistor and semiconductor manufacturing technology. He also developed the basic design methodolo… See more

The programming model and register set of the Z80 are fairly conventional, ultimately based on the register structure of the Datapoint 2200. The Z80 was designed as an extension of the Intel 8080, created by the same e… See more

Mostek, which produced the first Z80 for Zilog, offered it as second-source as MK3880. SGS-Thomson (now STMicroelectronics) was a second-source, too, with their Z8400. Sharp and NEC developed … See more

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Z80 was used in a great number of fairly anonymous business-oriented machines with the CP/M operating system, a combination that dominated the market at the time. F… See more

On April 15th, 2024 Zilog announced the discontinuation of the Z80 processor, with orders being accepted until June 14th, 2024. The announcement included 13 variants of the Z80 processor, many of which being … See more

• Zilog eZ80
• S-100 bus
• SymbOS
• Z88DK
• Micro-Professor MPF-I, Z80 training system… See more