Is it just me, or are almost all of the microcontroolers in that "top 1000" list from Microchip? If so, that doesn't seem like a very representative sample.
It'd be okay if you created an index of the price of the top-selling N microcontrollers at any given time, rather than tracking them for their entire life cycle. The 8086 was a great and important processor, but it's no longer relevant to any discussion of processor prices.<p>The S&P 500 does this for stocks; perhaps their implementation and design choices can find some application here?