(July 2026)Any electronic engineer who remembers the golden age of video gaming most likely heard of the Zilog Z80, one of the most important 8-bit microprocessors ever produced. Intel was quickly dominating the market with its 8080, which it used to drive that transition, but in 1976 the Zilog Z80 entered the market and would quickly become one of the most widely used 8-bit processors in history. The time, the money, the architecture- things he learned while working at Intel in the early 1970s. The Z80 was included in the Osborne 1, Radio Shack TRS-80, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, Sega's Master System, and the Pac-Man arcade cabinet. Even the early Gameboy series used a modified Z80.