Who begat who?

AND THUS ZILOG WAS BORN!

Here's a fun video about Zilog's founders:

Intel's Worst Nightmare


(Please forgive the stock footage and computer generated images
for the story is compelling:
the glorious culture clash of Italian vs Japanese manners!)

Zilog's primary founders:


The other branch of the family tree: How does the Motorola fit into things ?

Several key people from the Motorola 6800 project left Motorola
when management failed to see the merit of a low cost microprocessor.

MOS Technology was formed by 3 former General Instrument executives:
John Paivinen, Mort Jaffe and Don McLaughlin

Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch left the Motorola 6800 team to create the MOS 6502 microprocessor.

citing GOOGLE AI:
The development of the Motorola 6800 microprocessor in the early 1970s
was primarily driven by a team in Phoenix, Arizona,
led by Tom Bennett,
who was hired away from Victor Comptometer (a calculator company) to lead the effort.

However, the more famous story regarding "stolen" or lost talent
in the context of the 6800 occurred in 1974,
when a significant portion of that design team left Motorola to join MOS Technology.

Key talent that left Motorola included:

    Chuck Peddle
    Bill Mensch
    Rod Orgill
    Harry Bawcom
    Wil Mathys
    Ray Hirt
    Mike Janes
    Terry Holdt