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TIL: Zilog has announced that they will soon stop taking orders their 8-bit Z80 CPU in 2024, after almost 50 years in production. It was a common CPU in many homecomputers, arcade machines and some game consoles in the '70s and '80s. It's surprisingly enough (as of now) still manufactured.

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