Zilog, Inc., NASDAQ: ZILG often seen as ZiLOG (the official company denotation in 1998 through Jun 2007, which stands for "Z (the last word of) integrated logic"), is a manufacturer of 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit microprocessors, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series.
Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 8080. The company became a subsidiary of Exxon in 19...
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Zilog, Inc., NASDAQ: ZILG often seen as ZiLOG (the official company denotation in 1998 through Jun 2007, which stands for "Z (the last word of) integrated logic"), is a manufacturer of 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit microprocessors, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series.
Zilog was incorporated in California in 1974 by Federico Faggin, who left Intel after working on the 8080. The company became a subsidiary of Exxon in 1980, but the management and employees bought it back in 1989. Zilog went public in 1991, but was acquired in 1998 by Texas Pacific Group, who, after chip prices plummeted, reorganized the company in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001. On January 2008, Zilog declined an unsolicited proposal made by Universal Electronics Inc to acquire the company.
The Z80 was an improved implementation of the Intel 8080 architecture, which was faster, more capable, and much cheaper; alongside the 6502 it was one of the most popular 8-bit processors for general...
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