Editing Zilog (section)

{{Short description|American manufacturer of  microprocessors}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Zilog, Inc.
| logo = Zilog logo.svg
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Semiconductors]]
| foundation = {{Start date|1974}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted list
   | [[Federico Faggin]]
   | [[Ralph Ungermann]]
   }}
| location_city = [[Milpitas, California]]
| location_country = United States
| num_employees = 174 (2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=6677734-794-407158&type=sect&TabIndex=2&companyid=26894&ppu=%252fdefault.aspx%253fcompanyid%253d26894%2526amp%253bformtypeId%253d7 |title=Zilog Inc 10-K |date=March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113132816/http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=6677734-794-407158&type=sect&TabIndex=2&companyid=26894&ppu=%252fdefault.aspx%253fcompanyid%253d26894%2526amp%253bformtypeId%253d7 |archive-date=2013-11-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| parent = [[Littelfuse]]
| homepage = {{URL|zilog.com}}
}}

'''Zilog, Inc.''' is an American manufacturer of [[microprocessor]]s, [[microcontroller]]s, and application-specific embedded [[System on a chip|system-on-chip]] (SoC) products'''.'''

The company was founded in 1974 by [[Federico Faggin]] and [[Ralph Ungermann]], who were soon joined by [[Masatoshi Shima]]. All three had left Intel after working on the [[Intel 4004|4004]] and [[Intel 8080|8080]] microprocessors. The company's most famous product is the [[Zilog Z80|Z80]] microprocessor, which played an important role in the evolution of early computing. [[Backward compatible|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 computer]]s during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The name, pronounced with a long "i" ({{IPAc-en|'|z|aɪ|l|ɒ|g}}), is an acronym of ''Z integrated logic'', also thought of as "Z for the last word of Integrated Logic".