Captain Zilog Crushed! : The Story of the Z8000
How Zilog lost the 16-bit microprocessor market
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How Zilog lost the 16-bit microprocessor market
When Federico Faggin arrived at Intel in 1970, he immediately discovered that he’d stepped into a royal mess. He’d left Fairchild Semiconductor and accepted the position at Intel before being fully briefed on the custom chip set project for Busicom that would eventually become the first commercially successful microprocessor, the 4004. Faggin had developed a…