I just got a couple replies to my blog entry titled “Customizing CE - a different look at Peter Coffee's recent article“ from Peter Coffee himself. I've been a subscriber to eWeek for 6+ years and I subscribe to his articles via Rss. He makes some good points and follows up with market numbers on sales of 8-bit processors to date. It's a very interesting read and eye-opening.
Update: The post mentioned above was linked to in Peter Coffee's latest eWeek article.
The article has me wondering, how many microprocessors do I have in my home? I think I'll look into this and post my “Processor Index” - the number of microprocessors I have in devices around the house.