Two Years After Discontinuing the Classic Zilog Z80, Littelfuse Kills Off Its Remaining MCUs
Two years after discontinuing the venerable Zilog Z80, Littelfuse has announced that it is exiting the microcontroller market altogether — issuing an end-of-life notification for its entire microcontroller product range.
"Littelfuse Integrated Circuits Division would like to notify you that it will phase out all remaining active Microcontroller (MCU) product families," the company announced in a message sent to customers. "We appreciate your partnership and understanding during this transition."
The Zilog 80 launched in July 1976, the brainchild of former Intel engineer and company co-founder Federico Faggin and early employee Masatoshi Shima. Designed to compete with Intel's 8080, the Z80 was built with the market for embedded control systems firmly in mind — but the chip found a strong home in the then-nascent home computing marketing, powering devices from the Sinclair ZX81/Timex Sinclair 1000 and Tandy TRS-80 to Namco's smash-hit Pac-Man arcade machine.
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