Symetrix has issued licenses for [the new ferroelectric material] Y-1 to
    some 14 companies, including giants such as NEC, Mitsubishi and Toshiba
    in Japan, Motorola in the US, Siemens in Germany and Hyundai...
        :
    I wonder who will be the first to include ferroelectric memory on
    their small processors. Microchip or Atmel? From an architectural
    point of view, it perhaps makes a bit more sense for Atmel.

Siemens makes 8051 compatibles - perhaps they'll appear in FEPROM versions.
An interesting possibility to consider would be the appearence of some
traditionally mask-rom only processors (ie from toshiba) in FEPROM versions
(leapfrogging past EPROM, OTP, and EEPROM versions...)

BillW