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El Correo Libre Issue 86
Renaldas Zioma responded, as did so many, with despair to the news that Zilog was to discontinue the venerable Z80 microprocessor - but decided to step up and rather than wallow created an open-source reimplementation manufactured as part of the Tiny Tapeout 07 run, and now proven to function as-expected.
El Correo Libre Issue 85
Latch-Up 2025 has now been and gone, and our North American conference has yet again lived up to what we’ve now come to expect from FOSSi Foundation events.
El Correo Libre Issue 84
The first batch of speakers for Latch-Up 2025, the conference dedicated to free and open-source silicon and its surrounding ecosystem, have been confirmed — and if you haven’t registered to talk or attend yet, there’s still time before the doors open in sunny Santa Barbara, California, on the 2nd to the 4th of May 2025.
