01-25-2022, 05:05 PM
(01-25-2022, 09:34 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: @"Ninurta"
Just checked on Zilog.
Still in business! Since 1974. In today's market, that is -amazing- .
Cheers
It looks like they moved into the low end but high volume controller market, and that's what kept them afloat. Instead of chasing the 64 bit architecture, they stayed mainly at 8 and 16 bit, with an aborted foray into 32 bit architecture for a while, sufficient to run a number of controllers for communications and security applications, and those are EVERYWHERE these days. Some of them can be found on ARM "computer on a single board" architectures that a lot of Linux nerds like to tinker with. When I studied physics in the 90's, I had to have a TI graphing calculator with all manner of fancy and advanced functions, and that had a Z-80 in it.
It wouldn't surprise me if I found out these motion detection and IR surveillance cameras I have had a Zilog chip in them.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’