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by gitgreen 2999 days ago
Yup. The Pi has been based on ARMv8 architecture since late 2016, the same architecture that the latest Apple mobile chip(A11) is based on. There's plenty of room to grow in the Broadcom line. The only part that really needs attention is the bundled GPU which IIRC has never been updated since the RPi has been introduced.
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> Yup. The Pi has been based on ARMv8 architecture since late 2016, the same architecture that the latest Apple mobile chip(A11) is based on.

that doesn't mean anything, other than that it runs arm64. in every other way it's nowhere close to A11.

And yet they have already said there is nowhere else to go with this 40nm process. They'd need to port it to a newer node and that's a huge job which may not happen.