The short answer is no, there is nothing to fear! But the Z80 has seen its life threatened during its 50-year lifespan.
In 2024, the Z80 finally reached end of life/last time buy status according to a Product Change Notification (PCN) that we saw via Mouser . Dated April 15, 2024, Zilog advised customers that its "Wafer Foundry Manufacturer will be discontinuing support for the Z80 product…" But fear not, as back in May 2024 , one developer was working on a drop-in replacement. Looking at Rejunity's Z80-Open-Silicon repository , we can see that did in fact happen via the Tiny Tapeout project.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/developer-creates-conversational-ai-that-can-run-on-1976-zilog-z80-cpu-with-64kb-of-ram-features-a-tiny-chatbot-and-a-20-question-guessing-game#main
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