Here is the article I found, but I suppose others have already seen this?

The legendary Ziglog Z80 CPU is being discontinued after nearly 50 years

https://www.techspot.com/news/102684-zilog-discontinuing-z80-microprocessor-after-almost-50-years.html

Seems while the Ziglog EZ80 is compatible and four times faster, it is in a 
more modern package, how dare they! 😉

https://www.zilog.com/docs/um0077.pdf

Warning: Do not use Life Support. 

Who would-ah thunk.

Don Resor


-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2024 7:08 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Last Buy notification for Z80 (Z84C00 Product line)

Gee!  Have sales gone down?

One more reason to use the 8080 subset when writing CP/M programs.

Aren't there already some licensed second sources?


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