Zilog
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Zilog, Inc. is an American manufacturer of microprocessors and 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers. It is also a supplier of application-specific embedded system-on-chip (SoC) products.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Semiconductors |
Genre | CPU, microprocessor |
Founded | 1974 |
Founder | Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann |
Headquarters | Milpitas, California,[1] United States |
Key people | Federico Faggin Chairman of the Board Darin G. Billerbeck President CEO Director |
Products | Microcontrollers Microprocessors Motion detection TV controllers Single board computers |
Revenue | $82 million (2007) $67.2 million (2008) $36.2 Million (2009) |
−$18.39 million (2008) | |
$3.18 million (2008) | |
Number of employees | 174 (March 2009)[2] 1010 (parent) (March 2013)[3] |
Parent | Littelfuse |
Website | Zilog.com Littelfuse.com |
Its most famous product is the Z80 series of 8-bit microprocessors that were compatible with the Intel 8080 but significantly cheaper. The Z80 was widely used during the 1980s in many popular home computers such as the TRS-80, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the ZX Spectrum,[4] as well as arcade games such as Pac-Man. The company also made 16- and 32-bit processors, but these did not see widespread use. From the 1990s, the company focused primarily on the microcontroller market.
The name (pronunciation varies)[5] is an acronym of Z integrated logic, also thought of as "Z for the last word of Integrated Logic".[6] In the oral history interview video which Federico Faggin (co-founder of Zilog) recorded for the Computer History Museum, he pronounced Zilog with a long "i" (/ˈzaɪlɒɡ/) consistently.