After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
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Shout out to the Ti-8X users and anyone who remembers zshell.

I doubt this announcement is going to affect the calculators, but it's amazing to see how many things still run off this technology.

TI uses an outside vendor, SK Hynix I believe, for their calculator chips. Z80 isn't going anywhere.

It is worrying though since I follow Collapse OS and a lot of its design aims at the Z80 due to its abundance. Killing off the DIP Z80 gives me some pause.