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22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022) (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

1200 transistors per chip? That’s amazing! The Zilog Z80 (that powers a Game Boy or TI-84 Plus) has 8200 so he may start producing CPUs in the near future.

[–] QBertReynolds 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Game Boy was not powered by a Z80. It was a Sharp LR35902. It was similarly modeled after an 8080, but you're not going to be able to run Z80 code on a Game Boy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I know but it’s close enough for this comparison to make sense.