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(direct link to the PDF)Dear Customer and/or Distributor,
Please be advised that our Wafer Foundry Manufacturer will be discontinuing support for the Z80 product and other product lines.
Last Time Buy (LTB) Orders will be accepted until June 14", 2024.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) orders will not be accepted, and orders must be submitted manually.
LTB orders will be booked and scheduled after Zilog has had the opportunity to review/consolidate the demand and received delivery dates from the Wafer Foundry Manufacture.
Depending on the overall LTB demand minimum/maximum order quantities maybe implemented.
LTB Orders are non-cancelable, non-returnable (NCNR). Once Sales Order Acknowledged, no customer requested push outs will be accepted.
Current scheduled orders will not be impacted
some notable uses of the processor include the ZX Spectrum, numerous arcade boards including the original Pac-Man, and the SEGA Master System.
this is far from the first loss of support for an ancient part in the past several months either, as the Linux Kernel dropped support for Voodoo GPUs last April.