[treffer]

Most SOCs are trimmed for cost, which means cheap manufacturing. Especially the system on a chip design for single board computers.

Even RPI5s with the Broadcom BCM2712 which is super high volume is 16nm. If they manage to get 5nm in 2026 at low cost than that's the path to take the SOC crown.

This could even lead to RISC-V SOCs/SBCs at RPI power and price tag (yeah, still dreaming).

[snvzz]

>This could even lead to RISC-V SOCs/SBCs at RPI power and price tag (yeah, still dreaming).

A little more power (different form factor...) but don't miss Milk-V Oasis.

That's due this summer, $120, mini-itx and should be massively faster than RPi5.

[jacquesm]

I can't wait to get my hands on one of those.

[RetroTechie]

Energy efficiency, high performance, low cost per IC: pick 2.

[datadrivenangel]

Up until a process generation or three ago, costs were declining as efficiency and performance increased!

[VMG]

When I compare my phone with a PDP11 it seems obvious that I can pick all three and then some

[snapplebobapple]

You are comparing time series data when the statement was obviously meant about cross sectional data.

[nine_k]

High absolute performance (Xeon / Epyc scale), maybe.

High performance per watt, why not all three? Smaller transistors take less power to switch, so they likely can be run at a higher frequency without thermal issues. (Of course, a lot of other design considerations apply.)