My housemate and I used to joke about CPUs someday being so cheap that they would &quot;fall out of cereal boxes as the prize.&quot;<p>The STM8, a chip about 5X more powerful than the first computer I owned, has a variant that is under 17 cents in quantity. Doesn&#x27;t quite qualify as mommy-buy-me-that-cereal prize material, but it&#x27;s damn close.<p>The number of 8-bit CPUs sold every year must dwarf the number of 32-bit ones, yes?