The Z80 was a big deal in the 1970s and 1980s, and while its no longer a dominant architecture today, its legacy lives on. [James Andrew Fitzjohn] is a fan of the Z, and decided to interface the real ...

The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega ...

Last week, chip manufacturer Zilog announced that after 48 years on the market, its line of standalone DIP (dual inline package) Z80 CPUs is coming to an end, ceasing sales on June 14, 2024. The 8-bit ...

The NABU PC caused a bit of a buzz in the retrocomputing community a couple weeks back. After all, it doesn’t happen often that a huge batch of brand-new computers from the 1980s suddenly becomes ...

TOKYO — Sharp Corp. and Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (SEL) have integrated an 8-bit Z80 processor composed of 13,000 transistors onto a glass substrate with a liquid-crystal display, ...

A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP’s ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – and marveled ...

ITworld.com – For the past, say, 20 years, we have had a period of relative homogeneity in the CPU side of the computing business. A small number of household brands such as Pentium, Sparc and PowerPC ...

Nubia has launched the Z80 Ultra globally as part of an early bird campaign, following its debut in China last month. The global version is now available for purchase with limited-time launch offers ...

Offered as a user-friendly, one-axis remote driving controller for point-to-point control of general-purpose motion systems, the MNC100 features Z80 processor compatibility and manual teach operations ...