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[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 26 points 4 months ago

Iirc, theyre the last products still using a z80, which was launched in the seventies. Keeping an entire chip fab open for one thing isnt cheap, even if its for something like a z80

[-] Doombot1@lemmy.one 24 points 4 months ago

The z80 actually just went EOL last week! After nearly 50 years.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah but they're still making the ez80 for the calculators. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_eZ80

[-] Doombot1@lemmy.one 5 points 4 months ago

Ah, duh! Totally forgot about that part of the article, lol

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