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@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.ukZ80 is being discontinued after 50 years. Looks like the 6502 finally won 
#6502 #8bit #z80 #zxspectrum #bbcmicro
I'm serious. You can still buy them at Mouser and Jameco
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@bbcmicrobot hey I bought one of these recently for a Ben Eater 6502 computer project. I’m glad they are still around.
@bhauman @bbcmicrobot And if you are really mad, you can just solder one yourself.
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I'm still waiting for my teenage attempts at learning 68000 assembler to prove the One True Path to computing enlightenment - clearly much more useful than assembler for that weird ARM thing in the school computers as being learned by a couple of friends...
@coprolite9000 @bbcmicrobot indeed, who do these upstarts in ARM think they are, trying to take on the mighty Motorola! (Though they competed more with the 88k RISC series than the 68k.)
I wonder if that affects the people that have licenses to produce their own?
@johnb48 (If someone has a license for Z80 IP inside their own silicon design, that would unaffected, at a guess)
@bbcmicrobot @johnb48 it's only the dip form factor that's affected.
Other formats & the eZ80 are unaffected.
It sounds like the fab won't be supporting dip chips anymore to me, but the other ones are unaffected.
Not necessarily a disaster as I'm expecting someone to make a dip board with a pico chip on it at some point, as there's already a decent z80 (spectrum) emulation available which runs on that microcontroller.
@peter @bbcmicrobot @johnb48 that's not what Digikey says.
I see two remaining Active parts, both LQFP-100 with integrated SIO and other stuff.
The DIP, PLCC and 44-LQFP are gone.
@thejpster Thats interesting, from what I saw elsewhere didn't mention the other form factors
@peter @bbcmicrobot @johnb48 Still sad, ZDIP chips are so much nicer to work with.
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Hehe, I've been waiting for someone to make that comment since the news started doing the rounds.