On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > Since Zilog is no longer in existence while AMD is blowing Intel out 
> > of the water I'd consider that a pretty understandable mistake.  I 
> > gather AMD picked up the part when Zilog vanished.

As others have mentioned, Zilog seems to be alive and well. Or at least
well-niched. :-)

> Heh.  Actually, AMD cloned or bought rights to a number of different
> cores.  A databook that I have has the information on their versions
> of the NCR 53c9x and Z8530.  They also made a combo chip with both the
> 5380 and 8530 on it, and Apple used that in some systems.  Sort of like
> the VIA, they eventually incorporated some of these cores into larger,
> centralized ASICs to save some money.

I thought Zilog made that beast. It is the 85C80, and is the SCSI
controller in the IIsi. :-)