In the Sept 12 issue of EDN magazine ("Out in Front" section, page 21),
there is a press release from Atmel claiming that they have the FIRST 8
bit RISC processors?  Atmel calls this line of processors there AVR
series, and the first one is the AT90S1200.  For more details wait for
the Sept 12 issue to appear at http://www.ednmag.com/.  (It doesn't seem
to be there as of 9/18)

I find this to be quite odd because I've always thought of MicroChip as
having 8 bit RISC type processors?  Is this true??  Or is Atmel just not
aware that MicroChip exist? :-)

Any thoughts?

        - Eric Thompson