Zilog

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Zilog, Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1974 (1974)
Founders	Federico Faggin Ralph Ungermann
Headquarters	Milpitas, California , United States
Number of employees	174 (2009)[1]
Parent	Littelfuse
Website	zilog.com

Zilog, Inc. is an American manufacturer of microprocessors, microcontrollers, and application-specific embedded system-on-chip (SoC) products.

Founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann, who were soon joined by Masatoshi Shima, who had all left Intel after working the 4004 and 8080 microprocessors. The company's most famous product is the Z80 microprocessor, which played an important role in the evolution of early computing. Software-compatible with the Intel 8080, it offered a compelling alternative due to its lower cost and increased performance, propelling it to widespread adoption in video game systems and home computers during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The name, pronounced with a long "i" (/ˈzaɪlɒɡ/), is an acronym of Z integrated logic, also thought of as "Z for the last word of Integrated Logic".