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End-of-Life for Z80 CPU and Peripherals Announced
- rbanffy 3y agoIt’s a good thing we still have the eZ80. Someone will make a little board to make it a drop-in replacement (although much faster) for the Z80.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoAre there any recent products that use the Z80? - excluding retro computing and electronics hobbiest devices. The TI-86 Graphing calculator used it and was discontinued in 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-86 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-86
- nubinetwork 3y ago> recent products > excluding retro computing and electronics hobbiest devices Not that I know of, but I wouldn't be surprised if some washing machine or something decided to use them over arm or some microcontroller.
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- ComputerGuru 3y agoI’ve seen it in random things that are expensive but with a random low-tech component thrown in to power some peripheral feature (i.e. appliances). Not in tech stuff where better and cheaper options abound.
- duskwuff 3y agoWith the exception of the TI-89, the TI-8x series used custom ICs based on a Z80 core - not the Z80 itself.
- vlod 3y agoZX81. It all started with you buddy. Sad to see the end of an era.
- generic92034 3y agoAlmost, but the ZX80 was also using the Z80 CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80
- whartung 3y agoAre the foundries shutting these down because they’re such low density compared to what they could be making today? Simply they have to maintain essentially obsolete equipment in order to make the devices? Certainly it could be just raw market forces, I just don’t know how specialized the equipment is for this. Were they only making Z80s with this, or are there other product lines that they’re discontinuing as well.