Don't forget per-unit savings at scale. That's the main reason 8-16 bitters (a) still exist at all and (b) sell for over a billion dollars a year. The 32-bit RI

Don't forget per-unit savings at scale. That's the main reason 8-16 bitters (a) still exist at all and (b) sell for over a billion dollars a year. The 32-bit RISC chips on modern nodes are starting to eat into them. Yet, there will always be companies willing to use a tinier, weaker, or just weirder device to increase per-unit profits. Heck, there's even still a market for 4-bit chips used by the likes of Gillette: http://www.embeddedinsights.com/channels/2010/12/10/considerations-for-4-bit-processing/ http://www.embeddedinsights.com/channels/2010/12/10/consider...